Is it possible to open bank acc. remotely?

Is it possible to make outgoing wire transfers?

Where on earth would that be possible?

A: in Germany! I did that on Saturday. The process is called Post Ident It's free and one has to show the passport at a Post Office. Online Banks use it all the time... Cheers, Chris

Almost every where in Europe,

they call it E banking.

With most of the major European banks you can open an account by internet.

BTW one of the biggest and most profitable bank in Europe (RABOBANK) only have E banking, they not even have 1 branch everything goes by the Net.

Is it possible to open bank acc. remotely?

Is it possible to make outgoing wire transfers?

Where on earth would that be possible?

A: in Germany! I did that on Saturday. The process is called Post Ident It's free and one has to show the passport at a Post Office. Online Banks use it all the time... Cheers, Chris

Almost every where in Europe,

they call it E banking.

With most of the major European banks you can open an account by internet.

BTW one of the biggest and most profitable bank in Europe (RABOBANK) only have E banking, they not even have 1 branch everything goes by the Net.

No shit?

Try to open an online account with Rabobank and what you get is - you can have it as long as it is directly linked with, and based on, an existing account with other bank.

And there we are: that existing account had to be open in a "brick and mortar" fashion with all the ID checks, not online.

You can open a bank account online in the UK.

Admittedly, they'll generally send you some forms to fill in, so you'll need a UK address (or someone to forward the letter to you), and will usually assume you transfer an initial sum into it from an existing bank account.

An e-banking account is very difficult to set up as your first bank account still.

An e-banking account is very difficult to set up as your first bank account still.

It is not only difficult. It is impossible.