SEPA Transfer EUR > GBP with HSBC UK: complaint?

JuicyJesus

dazza.mk wrote: »

If it is a SWIFT payment then it is irrelevant to the above, the specific European legislation only covers payments made using the BIC/IBAN (which won't necessarily be SWIFT), and they don't have to be free, they just can't be more expensive than domestic transfers in Euros (assuming all other criteria are met)

This is the key bit. If you wanted to send someone in the UK a sum of money in Euro (Christ knows why you'd want to) you would be charged exactly the same amount as you would to send it to someone somewhere else in the SEPA. If we used the Euro as our standard currency and not sterling, it would be relevant. As it is, it's not.