<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Merry:
I think you will find it is $1m on deposit for Amex Private Banking to pay for you AMEX card fee (or fees).
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Nick</font>
I'm pretty sure it was GBP 300,000 (I applied my usual inaccurate exchange rate to get the dollar amount

) when I first got my membership pack, but I was part of the first intake, so I guess they will have moved up the bar since (as they have moved up the fee ... )
I'd like to think that $1M on deposit would allow you some 'pull' with Amex!
Either way, you'd
really have to want a balck card in order to choose that particular route
Ken.
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