Euro to sterling Bank accounts with low fees and great exchange rate :-)

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  • colsten
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    torrence wrote: »
    Why not just open a Transferwise.com account? You can create multiple currency accounts within your account and transfer funds between them at better exchange rates than the high street bank.
    One reason would be that Transferwise is now more expensive than Starling. Another is that they have no FSCS protection whilst Starling does.
  • born_again wrote: »
    Well until the OP comes back and answers the questions. Everyone is flying in the dark.

    Hardly

    As colsten answered in post 5, without explicitly going through the steps:

    Get paid into the Starling Euro account
    Transfer to the Starling GBP account
    Transfer to Santander joint account
  • eDicky
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    colsten wrote: »
    One reason would be that Transferwise is now more expensive than Starling.
    Are you sure? Without checking, I have the idea that Starling charges 0.4% on EUR/GBP conversion, whereas TransferWise adds a 0.35% fee for the same.
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    eDicky wrote: »
    Are you sure? Without checking, I have the idea that Starling charges 0.4% on EUR/GBP conversion, whereas TransferWise adds a 0.35% fee for the same.
    I have changed from Transferwise to Starling as Starling now give me a better deal. I periodically check, also on currency xfer comparison sites, and Transferwise don't come top any longer. Transferwise also charge for making payments from Euro to Euro accounts, and charge 2% for ATM withdrawals over £200 in any 30 days. You can't pay from your Euro account with your Transferwise card, like you can with the Starling one. Also, they have no FSCS. Essentially, Starling have leapfrogged Transferwise.
  • eDicky
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    colsten wrote: »
    You can't pay from your Euro account with your Transferwise card, like you can with the Starling one.
    That's strange, my euro purchases with TransferWise card are taken from my euro account, same with other currencies.

    I also use Starling, no denying its excellence.
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  • colsten
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    eDicky wrote: »
    That's strange, my euro purchases with TransferWise card are taken from my euro account, same with other currencies.
    They must have implemented this after I stopped using them. Thanks for the update.
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