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You literally cannot just transfer the money anywhere if it's money meant for a business. In many countries, just transferring that money to your personal account would be illegal. And many banks won't allow you to open a business account and directly after transfer millions of funds to it, without a long process of due diligence (AML/KYC). There is also a bunch of anti-terrorism (funding) laws that might prevent things from being done in just hours, especially during the weekend as many (most?) banks are outright closed during the weekend.


Not true for the US re: moving money to your personal account being automatically illegal.


The context is "International Startups" so I'm assuming that means Non-US startups.




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