I left Italy shortly after I got my first real job, say a couple of years. Up to that point, I had opened an online saving account and an online brokerage account: that was my only connection with the “banking” world. My only interaction with a physical bank was when, Read more
Shortly after I moved to Zurich with my family, we went to visit my wife’s sister that also lives in Switzerland. While chilling on the couch on a rainy Saturday, I started to rant to my brother-in-law about the fact that I had to stash more than 11k in a Read more
The good news: I finally managed to buy US-listed ETFs (in a 100% legit way. I have a cousin who pretended to live somewhere by photoshopping utility bills to bypass regulations/restrictions; amazingly, he never encountered any issue by willingly taking “risks” that his local Regulator deemed to be too big Read more