@ Wendy Thank you. Does that mean that you are are a car saleswoman?? (C'est une blague!). Currently in Scotland, spending Christmas/New Year with our children. Will look at this more seriously when we are back home. A good New Year to you! :-)
AS you would appear to be the resident "expert" on ING (in which I am still interested!), please advise as to what an "AE" is. I apologise that I am a "banking illiterate" in anything other than deposits and withdrawals!
@wendy: that is just what I'm using my Dutch account for, since most of my clients are Dutch. So how did you get two ING Direct accounts? They allow you to do that?
I have two ING current accounts, one for my payments as an AE which I only use to accept the money before transferring it to the joint current account.
I've been using ING Direct for a while now. Brilliant. Very easy to use, quick and simple. You just have to 'feed' it 750 euros a month minimum. Then everything is free.
Steve. To be fair, you are likely to be right. I set up my account in 1972 and have not had anything to do with opening new accounts since 2008 when I opened one for my pension there, and then that was an existing account holder. A lot can happen in that time.
They (German banks) do not have any problem with people from outside Germany setting up accounts although they prefer people to do it in actual branches in country in order to present ID in at least two forms across the counter. Are you kidding - I don't think there is a single German bank that will now accept overseas customers?