They're widely known, pretty trustworthy but also aggressively expanding their business.
To get a cashback debit card you'll need to stack an amount of their own token for 6 months, which, as you mentioned, is a bit shady but so far it seems going fine.
They've recently focused a lot on...
HSBC Premier members could open accounts remotely in every country with HSBC's presense, although they are required to always maintain a minimum balance in their home coutry's account.
Both Ally and Chime are major neobanks in the US providing standard checking and saving accounts. But unlike Ally which is an FDIC member itself, Chime has its "Banking services provided by The Bancorp Bank or Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC". Here Bancorp and Stride are the solution providers I...
well thanks for the notice haha
in that case, are there any countries in the region that you'd consider as a choice of banking that meets the bare minimum?
The news yesterday got the whole crypto community excited (ES, as the world's first, accepted Bitcoin as legal tender and plans to offer citizenship to those investing at least 3 BTC in the country).
Did a bit of reseearch, it was one of those US-backed banana republics but is relatively stable...
Nope.
Neobanks either hold their own banking license (meaning they are no inferior to brick&mortar banks) or "share" the banking license with a larger-sacle bank that provides such "license-lending" solution.
EMI usually hold non-banking licenses named "e-money", "financial service", etc.
Single-currency prepaid cards like Netspend, Bluebird and Greendot seem restrcited to their corresponding country only, so if non-US residents can't get one of those, I don't think an US citizen could get a non-US one.
For alternatives you might wanna look at EMIs with financial service...
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