I believe in supporting those in distress who you have some comradery or affinity with, so bringing this to the attention of anyone interested.<p>Greek small businesses are currently unable to make international payments, and all Greek credit cards are blocked. Therefore if e.g. your hosting bill needs imminent payment, you're in trouble.<p>Some Greek guys in America have a temporary solution to proxy payments from contributors outside Greece to the suppliers that Greek small business needs to keep them running.<p>There's a story here: http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/07/technology/greek-crisis-zerofund/index.html<p>You can submit financial support via prepaid cards https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UVyiVk6N1haFIPZTkuUrlyo4EbY06rjRT70Aodnw3Bk/viewform<p>And the link for Greek small businesses to request help is here https://zerofund.org<p>The people behind it are https://twitter.com/PanosJee and https://twitter.com/jonromero
As a Portuguese, I have to wonder: if a similar situation began to loom on the horizon, what could a small company do? Could it open a foreign account and transfer some buffer money to it, or would that generally raise questions?<p>I know most people here won't know about the Portuguese law in specific, but I'd be interested to know what options are usually available/recommended.