It’s not just businesses struggling with their banks. The Internet is littered with reports from individuals who have gotten calls from their banks after dabbling in Bitcoins, and not just in the U.S. A Swedbank customer says her account was frozen for 15 days after she sold 5 BTC through a local exchange.
Problems with Bitcoins in the US is sadly not a surprise, but Sweden kinda was.
I’ve had absolutely no issues with my bank because of exchanges with Bittiraha (yet?).
Our company had bank account from nordea, then the guy from Nordea called that they don’t want us as customer They just explained, that they don’t want any involvment with bitcoin businesses as reason.
It was probably branch-level decision, because there exist many other companies I know about that do business with bitcoin and have accounts at Nordea.
Other than that, banks have varying attitude to btc businesses worldwide. It is not just US-specific phenomenon. Some banks (the more modern) are more bitcoin-friendly, and some less.
They just explained, that they don’t want any involvment with bitcoin businesses as reason.