Money transfer

[puma]

they have got you all way`s .barclays tried it with me and took £120 out of my account but i complained and they put it back in dribs and drabs don`t know why they could not put it back in one go

[davido]

Hi I have just transferred money from the abbey to garanti bank in Fethiye  I ve been told it takes 2-4 working days to transfer, abbey charge £25 whatever the amount ( a word of warning make sure all the details for the receiving are correct i.e the swift code,account number and branch code, because if it comes back you have to pay again)and garanti have told me they charge 0.2% but I have not seen the statement yet,but I will let you know.Hope this is of some help.Cheers Dave:D

[NIG99999]

I have accounts with HSBC both here in UK & in Turkey.
It costs £10.00 to transfer any amount from UK to turkey.
I now have a Turkish Visa Electron card linked to my Lira A/C
I can go to a HSBC in UK with cash & that card & it is credited without charge
This seems a good solution to me!!!!!

[AOK]

Hi Korky.I recently sent £6000 and paid the following charges.Lloyds TSB Express tfr fee £20.UK agent charges(Standard Chartered)£35,Turkish bank charges £23.total £78.A lot depends on if the uk sending bank have to route the money through an agent.
Aok

[Elsa Padfield]

We got charged £25 by NatWest for rapid transfer (2 working days) and around £30 by Garanti bank the other end.  I have spoken to the UK branch of Garanti bank and they told me that theres no easy way to transfer money from the UK to Turkey but you can transfer online from Turkey to UK???  I'm not sure about that though.

[livinginthesun]

Hi

I'm currently doing some research into Foreign exchange / money transfer for some advice pages on this subject which we'll be publishing soon on our Moving Overseas Guide website.

From what I've seen so far, if you need to exchange money into a different currency & transfer it, if you use a specialist foreign exhange agent you can make large saving on the actual exchange rate over high street banks, as well as getting the funds transferred for free (& that includes for free at the receiving bank).

I'm not sure yet if the trasfer is fee free if there's no currency exchange, but I suspect not.  The fee's may be lower however.

If you'd like to know when we've published our research or wants if you'd like links to the foreign exchange agents whom I've researched, e-mail me & I'll let you know

Regards
Pete Adams

[loz]

Hi Kas, all banks have a swift code, barclays is BARC GB 22 or just pop into your local branch and ask them for their swift code, dont give them info, if they try to pin you down just tell them it is to let some transfer some money to your account, I just don't know why the banks try to hold info back from clients.  or look up on the internet and find the swift codes for any bank and and branch.

[stuart]

alan no one seems to be responding to your question about a bankers draft, or maybe i missed it,am not shure but i dont think bankers drafts are used here. i know a cheque can take a month to clear here..
also if anyone wants to transfer monies to my account here i wont make them pay any charges!!(that is meant to be a joke bye the way!!)

[wallace]

Bankers draft takes as long to clear as a cheque
so I was told

Carol

[alanw]

Stuart - nice to know these things get read! - Thanks