About eight weeks ago I took over as church treasuer. In the past I've taken on these roles and it was relatively easy to change signatures on the bank account.
Was I in for a surprise. If a signatory is not "known" to the bank they have to go through the whole rigmarol of supplying confirmation of identity, date of birth, proof of address and not to forget listing what they have for breakfast (I made that last bit up).
I have been to my chaotic local bank of a High Street Bank about five times with forms - somehow or other there was always something wrong with them.
Finally the Bank "Manager" contacted me and explained that because of 9/11 the rules had been tightened up.
Somehow I can't see City Road Methodist Church operating as drop box for laundering terrorist funds. Yet now it seems that we are deemed to be guilty until proved to be innocent. I think its time we got a grip of ourselves and stopped letting the terrorists disrupt our basic trust in one another.
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