Questions for fellow foreigners in Japan: - If there was a bank specifically designed for foreign residents, what would it have? - What are the most frustrating banking issues you encounter? We may invest in a bank startup, so your responses would be very helpful!
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Replying to @james_riney
I collect bank accounts as a hobby and therefore have less need of this than many friends, but: * no nonsense about names, addresses, hankaku vs zenkaku, etc, ever * standard product lineup, competitive card rewards, reasonable wire transfers * modern, modern, MODERN mobile/web
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Replying to @patio11 @james_riney
Just curious: What are some examples of nonsense about names and addresses from banks? And "hankaku vs zenkaku": I'm totally ignorant of this, but it looks like this has to do with character width? What does it have to do with banks, and what nonsense comes from them about it?
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Replying to @rwv37 @james_riney
Comparison of addresses which fails if the addresses are so much as one character off, resulting in full manual rework often weeks later, despite addresses being obviously equivalent (Main St. vs Main Street)
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Character width: without a deep dive into orthography, let's say that there are two ways to write a lot of the characters in Japanese and that your bank will often want one and only one of them in each form field and raise an error if they get the other. But they're convertable.
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e.g. Name: Patrick bzzz try again Name: Patrick OK, good to go! Too bad you still have a half-width character somewhere in your address. Go find it for me, bwahaha, I enjoy human suffering because I am a computer incapable of using lookup tables.
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