Maeve Kirkpatrick worked eight years in bank fraud operations in the Waterloo region before moving to consumer payments writing. She lives in Cambridge, tests every operator with her own money rather than a comped account, and has an unreasonable amount to say about why withdrawals stall.
Maeve funds each account personally, withdraws more than once where the result looks unusual, and deliberately tests weekend requests as well as weekday ones. Payout times are measured from the withdrawal request to the credit landing, never taken from an operator's published figure.
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