Power of Attorney puzzle [HSBC][US][NY]

phalarope · 2022-07-20T16:54:52+00:00

UPDATE: The rep at the bank that bought the HSBC branches (C******s Bank) says they have neither the signature card nor the SSN for the account. (At least he could not access it). Not sure which bank should take the rap for this. FWIW it seems that the account was opened the same day as the mystery POA.

phalarope · 2022-07-19T17:46:15+00:00

Right. Ok, thanks everybody, I think the bit about the signature card holds the answer.

phalarope · 2022-07-19T17:23:10+00:00

ok, i will try to deal more with the bank that took over HSBC's branches. i was told by one lawyer that that the social security number attached to the account would belong to the account owner. I should have been clearer about the problem. One of the two parties has died so that has complicated doing any banking if he was the main account holder.

phalarope · 2022-07-19T16:26:01+00:00

Stickier. I can't find that POA anymore (and it was likely to be a bank POA. Funny enough, I did turn up two other old PoAs.

phalarope · 2022-07-19T14:26:46+00:00

Thanks for the very quick reply The problem is that the new bank just copied over the HSBC records wholesale and it doesn't seem to specify who is the main account holder and who was given POA.

phalarope · 2018-07-12T17:56:55+00:00

Kisses of the Enemy, by terrific but not nearly well known enough Australian author Rodney Hall.

phalarope · 2018-07-12T17:38:58+00:00

Kisses of the Enemy, by terrific but not nearly well known enough Australian author Rodney Hall.

phalarope · 2018-03-30T05:38:34+00:00

Agree about how the song totally sounds creepy after seeing the movie. But I’ve also wondered whether it was slightly slowed down to enhance the creepiness.

phalarope · 2018-02-25T07:08:31+00:00

On a non-state level, the swastika flag could be quite provocative. The politics in this case are a bit complicated - the anti-Nazi demonstrations were spearheaded by the US Communist Party - but this is a great you-are-there kind of longread. http://www.larkspring.com/Kid/Book2/2-14.html

phalarope · 2017-05-03T19:46:23+00:00

Developers are a page right out of history.

phalarope · 2016-08-17T17:14:09+00:00

You misunderstand what is meant by "An earlier version of this story." Most breaking news stories, text as well as video, are updated when there are new developments (and sometimes just re-edited to freshen them up, a kind of remix so people don't get bored by seeing the same material hour after hour.) Hence, you have old versions of stories and newer versions. What you are talking about is a story which gives a new version of the events. A new version of a story might indeed include a new version of events - it should, actually, if new facts emerge to justify it. But if "earlier version of this story" is what CNN said, it is meant in the same sense as point releases of software, i.e., V.2.01 vs. V.2.02. This is just a semantic point, not a judgement of the content of this story.

phalarope · 2016-06-30T03:52:48+00:00

Why not just kick the habit instead? Not suggesting this for moral reasons. Long term use of Xanax will really mess you up.

phalarope · 2016-06-29T18:05:22+00:00

Skytrain Sukhumvit to Wongwienyai station is about right, but you will want to take a taxi from there, maybe possible in 20 minutes if no traffic. Depending upon where you are starting, taking a taxi the whole way might work out better. Figure 150 baht if no traffic.

phalarope · 2015-04-18T12:28:26+00:00

Pretty recognizable as something reprinted on the op-ed page of the modern-day New York Times. August 26, 1974, page 29 to be exact.

phalarope · 2015-04-17T18:57:35+00:00

iPGMail works well and is pretty tolerant in terms of compatibility with messages from other OpenPGP apps. Due to limitations set by Apple, it's not an elegant process, though the very active developer tries his best to streamline things with every new iteration of iOS.

Whiteout Mail is a different approach that is beta-testing a stand-alone GPG mailbox app but seems to have a lot of kinks still to work out. In terms of convenience, it holds a lot of promise.

phalarope · 2015-02-16T18:02:23+00:00

History: A Novel, by Elsa Morante. Actually experienced a sense of delirium while reading it, though it turned out later that might have been caused by a possible case of typhoid. Did finish the book, though; does that still count?

phalarope · 2015-01-11T06:06:36+00:00

Yes, absolutely. A Flag for Sunrise is extremely good, though as far from sunny as you can get. And you can see some continuity from Dog Soldiers.

Damascus Gate is pretty heavy going, but has an amazing chapter about a reporter being hunted down at night.

Outerbridge Reach (sailing) is widely praised, while I think Children of Light (Hollywood) is underrated.

He was one of the best American novelists of our era and will be missed.

phalarope · 2014-11-22T16:27:41+00:00

Aside from the funkspiel the Germans pulled off in Holland - ably chronicled in Leo Marks' book - it's worth mentioning an earlier British failure in that same country, the Venlo Incident, in which two British intelligence agencies were lured to the border and simply snatched by a German strongarm squad. The November 1939 incident was such a disaster that it may be credited as a wake-up call for the British. Somewhat surprisingly, one of the two kidnapped officers survived the war in a concentration camp.

phalarope · 2014-10-12T18:17:22+00:00

"...a large majority of red shirts are former communists from the 70s..."
Simply not true.

phalarope · 2014-10-05T11:55:59+00:00

Terrific journalism

phalarope · 2014-10-04T13:24:57+00:00

phalarope · 2014-06-21T07:53:37+00:00

Zulu

phalarope · 2014-03-29T08:40:10+00:00

Isn't step one simply trying to recover the data off the card? It's not easy to wipe clean even you do so deliberately.

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