The Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, or AFM) in the Netherlands has said it will "investigate" the "refusal" of certain Dutch banks to permit Dutch citizens who are also "unintentional Americans" – in violation of European Union rules – to have or maintain their existing bank accounts. 

A hard-line written response by Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra to the latest in a series of questions put to him and other Dutch officials over the past two years, about the banking problems so-called “accidental Americans” have been struggling with, has thrust the issue back into the media spotlight in the Netherlands, at least, since it was posted on the Dutch government's website on Oct. 6.