Tell me about it. While traveling abroad, I just happened to log on to my account on my broker’s website, feeling safe doing so thanks to 2FA. I observed that I couldn’t transfer funds to my already-verified bank accounts, and assumed it was a security issue related to hacking based out of the country I was visiting – no sweat, thanks for protecting my account.
But no, it turns out that it’s because this country got invaded by some nasty people that my government doesn’t like, So now I can’t access my funds, even from home, even to move them to a decade-sold domestic account, until I fax (!) in a short questionnaire that my broker can wave in front of our government to show that they’ve taken reasonable steps to make sure I’m not laundering funds on behalf of those nasty people or their country.
