[sixhobbits]

Wise, (before TransferWise) is a very fast growing payments provider that's popular across Europe and the world. I've used it with no problems to sign up with AWS and many many other services -- we run our entire company off the Wise account and it's never been a problem so far :shrug:

[jonp888]

It is however, as they state quite clearly on their website, not a bank, but an e-payments provider which 'does things differently', including as mentioned on the thread, giving it's users bank accounts numbers based in a different country to where they actually live. In theory this shouldn't lead to problems, but in practice it often does.

So I suspect a lot people, seeing this, will roll their eyes and say "whatever, get a real bank account and try again".

[berdario]

> giving it's users bank accounts numbers based in a different country to where they actually live

This is actually not meaningfully different: the 2 countries in question are both EU countries, and as long as you're an EU resident, you can register for a bank account in another country without problems (I know because I've done it with another provider... With a real bank account, btw which provides me the 100000€ guarantee in case that they'd go bust)

Of course, that's not saying that things are always perfectly smooth (I know that some Italian banks have issues to set up standing orders to other EU bank accounts, and the Italian bureaucracy itself expect you to declare and pay taxes just for the privilege of having a bank account elsewhere in the EU)

[KptMarchewa]

That's not how that's supposed to work in EU.

[jimmyspice]

Money is money after all, so I definitely do feel your frustration.