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		nabeards on April 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Saving money on international payments as a remote... I tried to use TW to transfer from a client’s UK bank account that was in USD, to my US bank account also in USD. I couldn’t find a way to choose this in the estimator, so I contacted tech support. They replied that this was a scenario they didn’t cover. I continue to get regular wires between the accounts, costs $25 in Interbank and my place charges an additional $10. ):

vasco on April 13, 2020 [–]

Might be cheaper for you to open a EUR account somewhere with low fees and do 2x transferwise than paying $35 per transfer

nabeards on April 13, 2020 | [–]

TW support told me they just don’t support an account in another country that isn’t in that country’s native currency. Which seemed odd. This was about a year ago.

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