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- From: timlee@netcom.com (Timothy J. Lee)
- Subject: Interstate Bank/S&L Branching Re: Foreign ATM Fees
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.190802.11257@netcom.com>
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- Sender: timlee@netcom.com (Timothy J. Lee)
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:08:02 GMT
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- jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
- |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?
-
- (Hmmm, that's strange, Citicorp itself is kind of troubled...)
-
- I think it is still mostly true that banks don't cross state lines,
- so Citibanks in different states are merely different banks owned
- by Citicorp. Federal savings and loan associations and federal
- savings banks are allowed to have branches across states, I think.
-
- Citibank in California is actually a federal savings bank, formerly
- Citicorp Savings. Nevertheless, I'd expect different banks and S&Ls
- under the same holding company to follow similar policies except
- where required by law (on the other hand, someone mentioned that
- some BofA subsidiary in Washington had a good deal that doesn't
- exist at BofA in California). Maybe the New York one is better,
- but the California one is definitely consumer unfriendly -- $6000
- minimum balance to avoid checking account fees, and low deposit
- interest as well. Maybe banks in California are consumer unfriendly
- in general...
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