Debanking of tech startup founders – Marc Andreessen interview
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Banks do not debunk these people, they scrutinize their transactions more closely, they make sure all paperwork is solid, all the funding sources and payment destinations are legal.
This is important. In my country, the president's daughter (and friends) spend decades stealing billions from taxpayers and storing it in foreign banks. Those transactions would be impossible for the average Joe, but banks just rolled over. This is what PEP status is meant to stop.
I can agree that debanking people/companies due to their business/opinions being frowned upon is not ok, but this has nothing to do with being a PEP.
I know Marc knows this, yet he wants to tell something entirely different to the world so the world looks at this policy differently, the goal being to roll back such laws with no one questioning them.
I'm on Trump fan, I think governments need trimming, but man, is this the Wild West now.
But in the interview, Andreessen is confusing this with "PEPs" (politically exposed persons) which is a totally different concept applied to politicians and their immediate family members.