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Emphasis mine, clearly. In short, if you read those pages, is pretty clear that SWIFT isn't agreeing to expand US subpoena power as they have a lot to lose and nothing to gain. Billman, you have either been somewhat grossly and intentionally trying to mislead people in this thread into hysterics or, contrary to your earlier assertions you don't indeed know everything you claim to about banking in general and the likelihood of moving money to and from sites becoming infeasible specifically. Others can decide how they feel about that.

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Thanks for the post. It sounds like Billman knows enough to advance the discussion on this issue considerably, but I appreciate your info about the SWIFT network. But am I correct in understanding the only banks use the SWIFT network- not ewallets? So click2pay and epassporte will be going away for US customers with the passage of the regs but we'd still be able to wire money from our local bank- correct?

And another thing- do poker sites even accept regular bank wires as a means of deposit? I've never wired money to a poker site and it would certainly be less convenient than using an e-wallet.