Can I use clarity card to get Euro's in UK

antenna

I think some confusion is because Nat West is a £ bank and these bishopsgate atm transactions are going thru a Ulster euro bank,and like some banks in europe they dont make any charges when dispensing notes of their country...could this explain it?
because to Ulster Bank this is NOT a foreign currency.

benjus

antenna wrote: »

I think some confusion is because Nat West is a £ bank and these bishopsgate atm transactions are going thru a Ulster euro bank,and like some banks in europe they dont make any charges when dispensing notes of their country...could this explain it?

Yes, it's essentially an Ulster Bank ATM from the Republic of Ireland that's been lifted and plonked outside a Natwest branch in London. It's a weird anomaly and I'm not aware of any others like it in the UK, from any bank.

Has anyone actually used it recently to confirm it's still there?

callum9999

benjus wrote: »

Yes, it's essentially an Ulster Bank ATM from the Republic of Ireland that's been lifted and plonked outside a Natwest branch in London. It's a weird anomaly and I'm not aware of any others like it in the UK, from any bank.

Has anyone actually used it recently to confirm it's still there?

There used to be a Citibank Euro ATM somewhere as well - I don't know if it still is.

antenna wrote: »

I think some confusion is because Nat West is a £ bank and these bishopsgate atm transactions are going thru a Ulster euro bank,and like some banks in europe they dont make any charges when dispensing notes of their country...could this explain it?
because to Ulster Bank this is NOT a foreign currency.

This specific ATM withdraws Euros from your account - that is it. It doesn't charge you anything, it doesn't do any converting. Completely ignore the brand on the front and which currency it gives you.

Whoever you bank with is responsible for deciding what fees to put on the transaction, and Halifax put none on the Clarity card.

benjus

callum9999 wrote: »

There used to be a Citibank Euro ATM somewhere as well - I don't know if it still is.

There's one in Canary Wharf - but like all Euro ATMs I've seen in the UK except the Bishopsgate one, it converts the transaction to GBP at a bad rate (unless you have a Citibank EUR account, I think).

callum9999

benjus wrote: »

There's one in Canary Wharf - but like all Euro ATMs I've seen in the UK except the Bishopsgate one, it converts the transaction to GBP at a bad rate (unless you have a Citibank EUR account, I think).

Ah yeah I do vaguely remember it only really being good for Citibank Euro account holders.

And a quick search said that this Ulster ATM no longer exists - though I can't say for certain.

callum9999

antenna wrote: »

I was lead up the garden path by poor info (read on this thread)..........This is NOT a Nat West atm in bishopsgate. It is a Ulster Bank atm,and as Ulster Bank's currency is euros it acts like a "foriegn bank that has the euro as its base currency

You're not fooling anyone - you pretended you understood something you didn't and were called out for it.

There is no reason whatsoever why Natwest couldn't have an ATM doing exactly the same thing with exactly the same charges.

benjus

It is/was outside a Natwest branch with Natwest branding. I intended to help anyone actually trying to find it; I wasn't expecting to get into an argument about it.

budgetflyer

Ulster Bank has Sterling as its base currency. In RI it uses Euro.In Ulster it uses £s

antenna

antenna

antenna wrote: »

These are the notes you get from the Bishopsgate atm

These are the banknotes you get from the Bishopsgate atm