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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!bacon!jordan
- From: jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Foreign ATM Fees
- Message-ID: <5924@bacon.IMSI.COM>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 16:31:43 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.204530.12656@netcom.com>
- Sender: news@bacon.IMSI.COM
- Organization: Investment Management Services Inc., NYC
- Lines: 22
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- Timothy J. Lee <timlee@netcom.com> writes:
-
- |Like Citibank (on Cirrus)!
-
- Citibank in California DOES charge $1 or something for all
- foreign ATM withdrawls.
-
- The non-NYC Citibanks are not "the same" as the NYC ones. Recently I
- was unable to access all my accounts via a Citibank/CA ATM. I called
- customer service (with the phone next to the ATM) and they said that as
- far as they were concerned, I was a "foreign" customer. The ATM
- networks are linked like regular Cirrus, Plus, etc. -- but not like the
- branches locally. They are treated (for now) as separate banks.
-
- Does anyone have the scoop on this? For a while (since 1935?) banks
- were not allowed to operate in more than one state. Citibank recently
- got some authority to operate in different states (California, Texas,
- Florida, to name a few) I think in exchange for buying some troubled
- S&Ls; is this going to eventually lead to a loosening of the original
- rules?
-
- /jordan
-