[committee] Bank account for UCC

[Ewan MacLeod]

iirc, as a regulation by having an account with guild finance (and soc
affiliated), we're not allowed to have a club-named account with
another bank

But other than being able to directly deposit into it and getting a
club-named credit card (FAL runs anyone?) what's the point in getting
a new bank account?

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:18 PM,  <mattman at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> So after some investigation (read: walking into the banks and asking), it
> would appear the UCC are able to get accounts with either Westpac or
> UniCredit.
>
> My personal vote would be for Westpac, you'll see why below where I've
> outlined the offerings from the two.
>
> Westpac:
>  - Open 9am to 4pm (5pm on Fridays)
>  - No account keeping fees
>  - Free inter bank transfers and cheques
>  - Tanya, the Crawley branch manager seems to be very helpful and friendly
>  - The Guild have their account (which includes our account in it's tangled
> web of finance) held at Westpac.
>
> UniCredit:
>  - Open 11am (or maybe it was 10am) to 3pm
>  - Each signatory on the account has to have a membership with UniCredit
> (only $2, but a pain to do every year)
>  - $2 monthly account keeping fee
>  - The women at the branch (think she was in charge), didn't seem that crazy
> about helping people - she ran through what we needed, gave me some forms
> but I didn't get the feeling she wanted to help.
>
> So, to open an account with Westpac, we need the following:
>  - Minutes of the meeting stating that (a) we want to open a new account and
> (b) who will be authorised to access it
>  - The constitution of the club
>  - 100 points of ID (which can be a WA Drivers Licence and UWA Student Card)
> for each signatory.
>  - Everyone to go to the bank.
>
> This is the account Tanya is talking about ->
> http://www.westpac.com.au/business-banking/bank-accounts/specialised-accounts/community-accounts/
>
> I don't know if we're eligible for all options like access to funds from the
> ATM or MasterCard (as we'll have a multiple signatory account) - but I can
> ask more questions if people want to go ahead.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt [MRD]
>
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