Moving money back to the UK from USA
#16
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Re: Moving money back to the UK from USA
Look at the Transferwise Borderless Account. You should then be able to transfer your USD to that as a "US Bank" in your name, then send it over to the UK through Transferwise.
#17
Re: Moving money back to the UK from USA
This sounds weird. My big US bank allows me to do international wire transfers online. I have wired money directly to the accounts of various UK charities and family members.
#18
Re: Moving money back to the UK from USA
My post a few minutes ago on this thread:
I have never been to look before, until a few minutes ago, but per my "playing with fire" comment above, mixed in with a lot of the Google hits of low-level consumer grumbling about Transferwise, there are some really concerning Google hits about things that Transferwise might be involved in. Transferwise has reportedly been flagged as engaged in fraud, and some US banks are reportedly refusing to transfer money to Transferwise, so as per another BE thread active within the past 24 hours, it is possible that it's not that "a bank won't allow a customer to transfer money", it might be that they "won't allow a customer to transfer money to Transferwise!"