David writes: > The way they would withhold payments as not going to approved entities > by the powers that be has forced me into believing they are more of an > information gathering utility disguised as a financial one. If you > undertake to act as a medium in a financial transaction, that's what > you do.
They have to comply with the (vaguely worded) law if they want to stay in business. I doubt that they like it any more than we do. > You don't put through some transactions and not others, simply because > they are heading to an Assange fund or some other entity not currently > approved of by American foreign policy preference. The "know your customer" regulations are by no means a US-only phenomena. It's supposed to prevent "money laundering". -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA