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Andriy Kazmirchuk
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Over the last 25 years, finance turned from bank infrastructure into an algorithmic surveillance machine. And here’s the crazy part: We all agreed to it. 🧵 The history of financial control (1990–2025):
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Andriy Kazmirchuk
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1990–2001: Banking Era • Control via banks, tax declarations, currency rules • Shadow economy = huge (cash was king) • SWIFT launches • First “anti-offshore” docs (FATF 1990) • Easy to open an offshore and disappear
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Andriy Kazmirchuk
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2001–2010: Post-9/11 → Finance = Terrorism • PATRIOT Act (US) • Powers for FinCEN & OFAC • Global FATF pressure • Harsh KYC/AML even for small clients • Banks start rejecting “risky” countries Control becomes a geopolitical weapon
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Andriy Kazmirchuk
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2010–2020: Digitalization & End of Cash • Global trend: cashless economy • China, Scandinavia → cash nearly gone • Apple Pay, Google Pay boom • Big Data behavior analytics Control is now invisible: just an algorithm
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