I have a friend that is constantly being debanked and his wires getting lost because he has the same name as politically exposed Russian person.

Banks do not negotiate. They just kick him off and sometimes even lose his money.

There is nothing he can do, even though everyone who would look the issue would figure out it's just a shitty automatic system flagging it because of an unrelated person 's name. It would cost too much time and money for banks to fix this mistake, so giving a boot is cheaper.