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Street address.

This relates to my previous post. When my girlfriend actually set-up the account, the first time there was a very strange problem. The guy setting her account up said he was unable to find her street address in her country of origin (somewhere in eastern Europe) and so he made her an appointment for the next week, and which point he told her that "the address had been found".

Bear in mind that no bank can know every single street name everywhere in the world. Does anyone understand what this chap was on about? It all seemed very weird.

Reply to
Zed
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Why not? For a mere £60 I acquired a database with every street address in Europe (including the accession countries). And the bank didnt need everywhere in the world, did it? Just the same database that I have.

Reply to
Steve Firth

You must have believed what it said on the tin. I lived for ten years at a London address which was not in the Royal Mail's Postal Address File.

Tony

Reply to
Anthony R. Gold

What is this product called?

My other point was that why did they even need to check this? What if she had some from somewhere in deepest rural Africa - how could they have checked then?

Reply to
Zed

In this case, it's called PrymeNav.

If they couldn't check her address they would presumably require some proff of her address ebfore they would open a bank account. It's not an automatic right to have a bank account, it's a matter of a contract between customer and bank.

They need to check because the government sets conditions on the information to be recorded when opening a new bank account.

Reply to
Steve Firth

London, Ontario? :-)

Reply to
Ronald Raygun

No, SW7 :-(

Tony

Reply to
Anthony R. Gold

How do you know that, though it didn't have a postcode :-)

Reply to
Chris

I know the full postcode it should have had because all the properties in that short street had the same one. But if you go to Address Finder on the Royal Mail site and enter that code, the numbers of my previous house and of some others in that street (none of which are new) are missing.

Enough of this, Steve can believe what he wants about his £60's worth.

Tony

Reply to
Anthony R. Gold

I have not explained myself well. Her address in London was verified with a bill since it was a Hall of Residence. Barclays bank are the bank that the University sends its foreign students to. She presented her passport so all the money laundering stuff was OK.

My point was that somehow the person opening her account seemed to want to confirm her foreign address in Eastern Europe. My points were that it cannot be possible to know every street name on the entire globe AND what is the point since her address in the UK is confirmed through ID.

Incidentally, her address in eastern europe is in the centre of the city and is well known it that country. It is not obscure by any means.

Reply to
Zed

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