I just had a bizarre conversation with my bank.
I had an incoming international transfer of a small amount of money, and it showed up on my statement as coming from an intermediate account by my own bank. I called them to ask from which foreign bank the money was transferred to me, and they were unable to tell me. Note: I didn’t ask from which account at the foreign bank, which might have been my next question, I just asked for the name of the bank and the country it was in.
No answer.
This effectively means that the USA Government has more information on my own bank account than I do.
As always in these cases, it’s hard tell incompetence apart from malevolence. Maybe a new word is required: malepetence.