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by aktuel 401 days ago
What's the alternative?
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OPay. Wish they're everywhere. All you need is your phone number as your bank account, with none of the thievery transfer fees, deposit fees, etc.
There is no alternative, all financial businesses will freeze accounts under any suspicions. Way to have a degree of mind peace is to have a handful of accounts with funds split across them. If an account gets frozen then it's business as usual pretty much. Takes months for investigations to complete at times.
The only alternarive where your funds can't be frozen arbitrarily by your counterparty is cryptocurrency.
Moving to a country where banks have at least some legal service obligation, such as the UK, although even then those regulations often don't cover businesses.
Never use a single fintech platform for everything, diversify and don't sleep for long with your hard-earned money in their hands.
3-4 accounts, some cash and a crypto wallet.
Crypto.

Yah, HN doesn't like it, but we will get there eventually.