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crotetoday at 12:06 PM1 replyview on HN

> Their biggest incentive is customer satisfaction

At a bank? No way. They are some of the most customer-hostile organizations I've interacted with. Dealing with payment accounts is a necessary evil for them, and they are very much aware of the effort required to switch to a different bank, and of the massive regulatory moat preventing consumer-friendly competition from popping up.

A bank doesn't care about screwing over a handful of customers. As long as it's not common enough to draw the attention of the press and/or a regulatory agency, they are not going to spend any money on improving.


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cestithtoday at 5:50 PM

Case in point: Wells Fargo foreclosure fraud. Case in point: Wells Fargo opening new accounts in customer names without direction from, approval by, or notification to said customers.

The primary incentive of a bank is to make money rather than customer satisfaction, security, or most other things. Sometimes other priorities suffer in the race to profit, sometimes including regulatory compliance and legality.