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International Banking, Part IV
Dec. 7th, 2018 05:57 pmTried to initiate another wire transfer yesterday. It went surprisingly well! I spelled everything out to the person at the call centre, they repeated everything back to me word for word as I'd spelled it, and seemed to have heard of both Vancouver and Cambridge, which was a nice surprise. Maybe, maybe, this time ...
I got the PDF form to check over and sign. Half the recipient bank's address was missing, as well as the last three digits of the destination account number, and my street address was spelled wrong.
When doing the rounds of corrections later, I learned that only the first two lines of the destination bank's address are shown on the form, and they have the rest but just don't show it. Because .... there's no chance any of that might be wrong? More likely because if they're wiring to another US bank, two lines of address is all you need, so why should the form be designed to show more?
All I can figure is there's some Floridian cryptid lurking in their HQ messing with both brains and computer networks, which may not be that different from its point of view. Frankly it inspires me to move the rest of my money out and close the account to save ever having to deal with them again, but I probably shouldn't do that until my GIC has matured ...
By the way, HI EX-TUMBLR people and welcome! I swear I blog about more interesting stuff than this most of the time!
I got the PDF form to check over and sign. Half the recipient bank's address was missing, as well as the last three digits of the destination account number, and my street address was spelled wrong.
When doing the rounds of corrections later, I learned that only the first two lines of the destination bank's address are shown on the form, and they have the rest but just don't show it. Because .... there's no chance any of that might be wrong? More likely because if they're wiring to another US bank, two lines of address is all you need, so why should the form be designed to show more?
All I can figure is there's some Floridian cryptid lurking in their HQ messing with both brains and computer networks, which may not be that different from its point of view. Frankly it inspires me to move the rest of my money out and close the account to save ever having to deal with them again, but I probably shouldn't do that until my GIC has matured ...
By the way, HI EX-TUMBLR people and welcome! I swear I blog about more interesting stuff than this most of the time!
