just for the record: the IBAN we have been talking about al this time is
the bank account number of a WMF bank account in euro, at a bank located in
Paris (and previously in Brussels). Of course the WMF has a euro bank
account, it would be odd if they didn't.
Lodewijk
ps: no need to shout.
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Tim Landscheidt <tim(a)tim-landscheidt.de>
wrote:
Frédéric Schütz <schutz(a)mathgen.ch> wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification. It's
surprising to me that posting a bank
> account number could lead to fraud - the bank systems are supposed to be
> robust enough for that.
My understanding is this is mostly a problem in
the US, from what I
heard from Garfield. I asked him because Wikimedia CH broadcast its IBAN
number everywhere for the fundraising, so I would have liked to know of
any potential problem, but there does not seem to be any in Europe.
[...]
Nothing prevents WMF from opening a bank account in Europe;
in fact given that most of the requests in this thread orig-
inate from within the SEPA region, having a bank account
outside it would be very inconvient for many donors.
Tim
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