In message <v02120d01ac4219a2e38e@[199.2.22.120]> Douglas Barnes writes:
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I must say that I've had some absolutely amazingly bad experiences with banks in Asia, Mexico and Central America, so I'm a skeptic when it comes to assuming that non-US banks are light years better.
The U.K. banks make the U.S. look awfully good....
Although I have no direct experience of European banking, I do know that the European banking industry, taken as a whole, is substantially behind the US banking industry in automation and efficiency. Most of
Oh yes oh yes oh yes...and I've banked with Lloyds on and off for 12 years...
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