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Receiving Money from USA
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One day transfer?? Might be pushing it a bit especially if it has come to UK via an agent bank (highly likely) - Monday would be my bet.0
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The American banking system is years behind the rest of the world, it's strange really because most would expect America to be ahead or at least on par with everywhere else, but nope, they require people to go into branch for transfers, don't use chip and pin...0
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Very glad you did take Mum's advice and eventually found the right person at Lloyds!I contacted the international payments section of Lloyds today and
BINGO
They know what I'm talking about. They explain that the Yanks still call a SWIFT payment a "wire" payment and they gave me the details of the "routing" bank and the clearing code.....
".....where it is corrupt, purge it....."0 -
The easiest way I've found to transfer money is using Transferwise:AWonderfulLife:A0
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