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by klaasvakie 2170 days ago
Not true, I can walk into most banks here in South Africa and open an account that allows me to trade on foreign stock exchanges. Minimum deposits are in the order of USD5k, and require only local ID to open.

Doing this anonymously would be much harder, but that's not what you were suggesting.

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Damn. Your African bank is better than my European bank.