William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> 
> We can give them a shot, but most banks will likely need to operate in
> the state we are registered in. You can't conduct business in a state,
> without a business license and other things. I believe that applies to a
> bank as well. Since a bank would be opening an account for a New Mexico
> entity. That would constitute them doing business in New Mexico.
> 
> It's not the same as a customer being remote, and say the account being
> created and existing in Maryland. Otherwise my local bank, or any bank
> really could choose to open a remote account.
> 
> That said it can't hurt to give them a call. But I doubt we can proceed
> with them because of the above.

Yeah, I figure there are probably gotchas involved.  My company is registered 
next door in VA, though, so they probably cut us some slack.  I don't know if we 
have a specific business license for MD (though we operate a couple of lockboxes 
in MD).  But I figured there was no harm in naming them.  Ya never know.


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