Posted on 08/12/2015 5:02:10 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Bank of America issued a statement July 28, halting Atlantic International Bank wire transfers, U.S. dollar bank drafts, and foreign currency transfers to and from Belize.
chl bofaAccording to the statement, Bank of America is exploring options for the flow of incoming and outgoing wires and hopes to find a solution to the issue. The issue is called de-risking and is in compliance with the regulations currently imposed on Caribbean and Central American regions by large U.S. and European banks. This process has severed ties with several smaller banking institutions.
The move caught U.S. expats in Belize by surprise and threatened to derail several real estate closings that were awaiting wire transfers. Several foreigners said they planned to change banks but others said they believed that all U.S. banks would soon follow suit.
“It’s another example of the U.S. government and banking system restricting the flow of people’s hard-earned money,” said Wilbur Simmons, a real estate investor.
De-risking is when a corresponding bank looks at the bank’s rating according to Caribbean Financial Action Task Force standards for the region. If the rating is good then they continue to do business and they extend the level of business that they do. But, if the rating is poor, then they cancel any agreements with that bank.
This is important to virtually any bank in the world. The U.S. dollar is used in banking systems present in almost every nation in the world and is the major currency for international trade. At some point this money may return to the United States. If the Justice Department decides that the money could be tainted, they can cut the bank from the system.
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The US is building a virtual Berlin Wall, one restriction after another. Don’t want citizens to be able to flee the growing hegemon and take their assets with them.
I guess it’s not too easy to leave the country with a couple million in cash either.
Were you under the mistaken impression that it’s your money?
Or a place where the govt is a servant of the people.
By the time the borders are closed, it will be to keep us in, not them out.
I’ve been doing business internationally for 41 years. This is not new. I think our banks did something similar with Nigeria 30 years ago for a while.
Just another vulnerability the little guy has.
Is this retaliation for border enforcement?
Was just in Belize, and it is Booming all over.
US ex pats are flocking their due to great real estate opportunities, modernizing infrastructure, very low taxes and low crime (unlike its neighboring countries).
One year residency there and you have an opportunity for obtaining citizenship and a Belize passport.
I suspect the US gov’t wants to discourage citizen’s from going Galt there.
You’ll flash on every federal Law Enforcement data base the moment you withdraw more than $10,000 in currency or ask for a large cashier’s or counter check made payable to yourself or a foreign bank.
Thank dubya, the PATRIOT Act, and the 35 year old Bank Secrecy Act for that.
Now how am I going to get my money package released?
The next step for government action will be to decree that certain people are forbidden to participate in the monetary system. This will become more possible as cash is squeezed out of use.
This is a necessary trend that takes us squarely to the time when a person must have a “mark” to “buy or sell”. However it arrives, it was anticipated over 2000 years ago when John wrote Revelation chapter 13.
I'm not a US ex pat but can you tell me how to flock my due? How does one do that? It sounds fun!
Yeah...just being a wise ass.
They are putting up an electronic Berlin Wall.
Pardon the loose nut on my keypad this morning and failure to preview intended message.
This is just another extension of FACTA and our overbearing government wanting to control everyone’s money.
It’s easy if you convert all your cash to dflawless cut diamonds.
BofA is owned by Warren Buffet and his investors. When I found that out I moved all of my money to a local community bank.
They make there money off of massive over draft fees. Here is the scheme they used.
You enroll in automatic bill pay services and set up the dates for those bills to be paid. Prior to Buffet and Company taking over, BofA would send out the payment on the date you set up and 2-4 business days later (it’s a warning in the fine print of the service) the payment would be received and posted to your account.
Buffet came in and set up the new policy that they send out the payment 3 days earlier, and deduct it from your account on that same day, then the date you set up for it to go out of your account. The problem is most people, me included, set up these payments based upon when our pay checks will be deposited knowing that we have money in our account to cover the withdrawal, which didn’t occur until the payment was actually received and deposited by the receiver.
By flipping the date BofA knows they will catch several thousand customers with not enough funds to cover the payment and then hit them with overdraft fees.
HATE, HATE, HATE BoA...
They would do something similar with our checks back in the day...would post checks against our account in such a way as to guarantee overdrafts...and then the counter fees when you went in to “discuss” with a teller...one never got away from paying them some how.
Once I learned that banks are NOT there for the average person, but for big business, I switched permanently to a credit union.
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