just for the record: the IBAN we have been talking about al this time is the bank account number of a WMF bank account in euro, at a bank located in Paris (and previously in Brussels). Of course the WMF has a euro bank account, it would be odd if they didn't.
Lodewijk ps: no need to shout. On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Tim Landscheidt <t...@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote: > Frédéric Schütz <sch...@mathgen.ch> wrote: > > >> Thanks for the clarification. It's surprising to me that posting a bank > >> account number could lead to fraud - the bank systems are supposed to be > >> robust enough for that. > > > My understanding is this is mostly a problem in the US, from what I > > heard from Garfield. I asked him because Wikimedia CH broadcast its IBAN > > number everywhere for the fundraising, so I would have liked to know of > > any potential problem, but there does not seem to be any in Europe. > > > [...] > > Nothing prevents WMF from opening a bank account in Europe; > in fact given that most of the requests in this thread orig- > inate from within the SEPA region, having a bank account > outside it would be very inconvient for many donors. > > Tim > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
