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Old Apr 19, 2014 | 9:16 am
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Originally Posted by jbcarioca
Even some seasoned travellers have no idea what FX is, so this elegant solution will not do anything but grow unless somebody such as the EU gets in the act, and even if that happens it will not do so soon. Just in case anybody looks at my earlier posts, I am arguing the opposite side I took earlier. I insist to the right to have schizophrenia on this subject.
It's another financial system pest, just like HFT.

There's hope tho - Taiwan went really bad in 2011 (Global Payments was always to blame), but something happened and they went to full compliance again from 2013 onwards - nowadays DCC is offered but fully optional in Taiwan. I wondered what happened to them in between 2011 and 2013, and won't mind more of that happening elsewhere.
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