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> due to US banking laws (anti terror yadda yadda) it is very difficult to do business on the internet unless you have a bank account in the USA

Can you expand on what you mean by this some more?

I operated from Australia as a sole trader (similar to single person LLC in the US I believe?) and I'm now the Director of a Thai Limited Company. In neither case did I have a "US" bank account.

With literally one exception in.. 8 years, I've always been paid by clients via bank-to-bank Wire Transfers (the one exception used TransferWise). I've never had any issue with payments not arriving/not being processed?

In the last 12 months I've been using my Thai bank's NYC branch to allow US clients to make an ACH payment, and the NYC branch of my bank then handles the transfer back to Thailand.

Are you talking about B2B payments or consumer payments?




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