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anamexistoday at 12:08 AM1 replyview on HN

The point of the CYA clause isn’t to prevent illegal activity or make the bank more aware of what customers are doing. The point is that when Bank 1 is defending itself in court, it has one additional thing they can point at when arguing that it should not be liable for the illegal activities.


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janalsncmtoday at 4:53 AM

Ok, fair enough. I just don’t think that is convincing evidence, personally. But there would be 11 other people on the jury.