[Gllug] Any bank not in the dark ages?

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:21:29PM +0100, Doug Winter wrote:

> Weird, what a coincidence - I had to do a SWIFT transfer to the
> Netherlands the other week and almost topped myself with frustration.
> Abbey National would do it for 25 quid, but then told me they would only
> do it for sums over 100 UKP for 'my own protection'.
> 
> Nationwide would do it for 20 quid, but only if I turned up in person
> with my passport, and had lots of information (like the address of the
> receiving bank) and made some very confusing choices about bank charges.
> 
> Took me four attempts in the end, and about four hours.  I've just
> closed my old current account and opened a new one with first direct,
> because they said they could organise this kind of thing over the phone
> (don't know if you can do it over the Internet yet).  Still costs 20
> quid though, and you still need all the information.

I did some work with SWIFT a few years ago. For a transaction they charge the
bank something like 10-20p (pence, not pounds). I wonder where the other
19.80 goes to ?

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