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Forum: Canada

Nov 12th 2016, 12:23 am

Replies: 80

Brexit currency woes

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Posted By BristolUK

Re: Brexit currency woes

Glad to be of service. Worth highlighting though that for bigger sums and or countries involved the rates and ID requirements may be different.

I registered just giving name and address and d/b...

Forum: Canada

Nov 2nd 2016, 12:32 pm

Replies: 80

Brexit currency woes

Views: 8,693

Posted By BristolUK

Re: Brexit currency woes

I think it may be HiFX with the fixed fee that was £9 when I was doing my comparisons. Of course that was based on CAD and maybe their rate increases for other currencies similarly to TW's fee.

Forum: Canada

Nov 1st 2016, 11:40 pm

Replies: 80

Brexit currency woes

Views: 8,693

Posted By BristolUK

Re: Brexit currency woes

I should have said you have to make your own % calculation. ;)

0.8% of £10k is £80.

I did a dry run, 10k worth of IDR for £80 and then 10k worth of CAD and it was £50 which is 0.5%.

So it...

Forum: Canada

Nov 1st 2016, 2:27 pm

Replies: 80

Brexit currency woes

Views: 8,693

Posted By BristolUK

Re: Brexit currency woes

Out of curiosity did the fee still work out as 0.5%?

Just wondered if they had different fees for different currencies. I mean the 0.5% rate is so low (at the lower end) I thought they might make...

Forum: Canada

Nov 1st 2016, 11:52 am

Replies: 80

Brexit currency woes

Views: 8,693

Posted By BristolUK

Re: Brexit currency woes

I've done that every time the subject comes up ;)

I'm not the only one using TransferWise. I did the whole comparison thing with several sites. A lot depends on the amount involved.

When I...

Forum: Canada

Nov 1st 2016, 2:37 am

Replies: 80

Brexit currency woes

Views: 8,693

Posted By BristolUK

Re: Brexit currency woes

So you email, wait for a response, do your transfer bits if you like the rate and then sometimes you might have something additional to do as well.

As opposed to signing on to a an appropriate...

Forum: Canada

Oct 24th 2016, 10:18 pm

Replies: 80

Brexit currency woes

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Posted By BristolUK

Re: Brexit currency woes

If I was Europe I'd be saying:

:rofl:

Forum: Canada

Oct 7th 2016, 2:47 pm

Replies: 80

Brexit currency woes

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Posted By BristolUK

Re: Brexit currency woes

Heads someone else wins, Tails you lose.

That's probably the best approach.

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