Dutch entrepreneurs avoiding negative interest by opening multiple bank accounts

Re:Dutch entrepreneurs avoiding negative interest by opening... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @10:39AM (#28380412)

There is no EU-wide deposit insurance. It was widely called for but blocked. European deposit insurance is nationally administered.

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Re:Dutch entrepreneurs avoiding negative interest by opening... by ewg4345h43 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @12:04PM (#28381579)

There is a EU directive that require certain guarantees from the member states. Citation from wikipedia:

Directive 94/19/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 1994 on deposit-guarantee schemes[11] requires all member states to have a deposit guarantee scheme for at least 90% of the deposited amount, up to at least 20,000 euros per person. On October 7, 2008, the Ecofin meeting of EU's ministers of finance agreed to increase the minimum amount to 50,000. ...

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Re:Dutch entrepreneurs avoiding negative interest by opening... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @12:06PM (#28381606)

> EU directive that require certain guarantees from the member states

Which is not EU-wide deposit insurance. It is a directive asking EU members to create national deposit insurance schemes.

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