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Balance transfer from a foreign credit card

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Can you transfer a balance from a Canadian card, to a UK card, to make use of 0% balance transfers?

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  • Brie
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    why?  the card numbers are the same set up.  there's be a foreign exchange transfer of course.
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    edited 22 October 2023 at 1:32PM
    Brie said:
    No.        
    why?  the card numbers are the same set up.  there's be a foreign exchange transfer of course.
    From Lloyds T&Cs
    Balance transfers    Using your available credit to pay some or all of your credit card balance with another UK provider.
    If you ask us to process a balance transfer or money transfer, we will transfer the agreed amount when we have completed our security
    checks, using the Faster Payments Scheme on the working day we approve your request. The money will normally reach the account within 2 hours and no later than the end of the next working day after we receive your instruction. If the other bank or lender is not a member of the Faster Payments Scheme, we may not be able to carry out your request.
    I suspect others will be the same.

  • The only possible way to do this is to get a money transfer deal card then withdraw available funds to your bank current account then instigate an International money transfer to pay the Canadian card.
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