The legendarily liberal Italian banking system
From my experience as a British citizen, it will be very hard to open an Italian bank account unless you're in Italy. Via e-mail, Banca Toscana told us you'd have to "rivolgersi in filiale" (turn up at the branch). And again, from my experience, Italian banks do not tend to differ a whole lot, one to the other, in terms of the competitive service they offer their customers.
I stand willing and happy to be corrected - and will gladly move my bank account accordingly if anyone can give me a shining example of the Italian equivalent of the UK's FirstDirect, for example.
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