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European banking is a really sad state of affairs (fedia.io)
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Moving away: close your bank account, you must live in the country to have a bank account here.

Moving to: you must open a bank account here, we don't accept foreign IBANs

Using a banking application: you must have US ~~tech~~ spyware on your phone, otherwise we don't consider it secure.

We need a European federation. I want to be able to move somewhere with my European bank account, get paid by European employer, pay with my European money using a European payment system without having to tell some other non-European country all about it.

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Have you moved countries within Europe? Then the problems mentioned above are what you can encounter.

And even if you haven't moved, try using non-US tech with your bank. Many banking application require you to either have a crApple device or a Google device with their spyware on it. Buying a phone without Google spyware (here's a big list of banks and their degoogled phone support).