just visited my SCB branch today to address this notice. They did not know anything about this change but were helpful in that they contacted SCB HQ and HQ was able to clarify it for us. Here is my understanding based on HQ info: As mentioned already in this group, the main change for foreigners is that single transfers over 50K are no longer possible via the SCB Easy App (the old exemption method will no longer be available) since SCB currently does not support passport level IDs for photo ID (maybe in the future). If you need to transfer over 50K with SCB the two choices as of June 9th are (my understanding):
1) do multiple transfers below 50K until you reach the amount desired (but not going over your daily limit which is typically set to 200K).
2) visit an SCB branch and bring your bank book and passport to have the transfer done in the branch.
3) Close the SCB account and open an account with a bank that supports facial ID with passport.
Cheers!
