Realm: Banking

[choco_frosh]

Is still boggled by the fact that in this country, if you give somebody your account number and your bank's routing number they can deduct funds from your account.

(Just came up in the context of actual work.)

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Re: wacky Germans

[choco_frosh]

As a tourist, you pretty much don't notice banks. Anywhere. Unless you have to use an ATM.
But in Germany, it is pretty common (especially in situations where Americans would use checks) to pay by bank transfer. Payee gives payer their account information, and payer can send funds yo the account, but not withdraw funds. Which ihho makes a lot more sense just from a logical point of view.