Best Banks in Ayamonte
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Best Banks in Ayamonte
We are with Barclays who have kindly cut back and shut their Ayamonte branch. We have all our direct debits and other payments setup with them and now we have no local branch to talk to.
Can anybody recommend a local bank who do not have high bank charges for transferring money in and out. We would also like them to move our current Barclays direct debits over automatically. Those with online banking and English speaking staff would be an advantage especially during the initial setup period
Can anybody recommend a local bank who do not have high bank charges for transferring money in and out. We would also like them to move our current Barclays direct debits over automatically. Those with online banking and English speaking staff would be an advantage especially during the initial setup period
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Re: Best Banks in Ayamonte
We are with Barclays who have kindly cut back and shut their Ayamonte branch. We have all our direct debits and other payments setup with them and now we have no local branch to talk to.
Can anybody recommend a local bank who do not have high bank charges for transferring money in and out. We would also like them to move our current Barclays direct debits over automatically. Those with online banking and English speaking staff would be an advantage especially during the initial setup period
Can anybody recommend a local bank who do not have high bank charges for transferring money in and out. We would also like them to move our current Barclays direct debits over automatically. Those with online banking and English speaking staff would be an advantage especially during the initial setup period
I did make enquiries at Santander, the transfer process sounded about the same as in the UK, ie the bank takes care of it all. They do have some English speaking staff. Others who bank there may advise you on their efficiency etc. Sol Bank has been recommended in the past.
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Re: Best Banks in Ayamonte
We are with Barclays who have kindly cut back and shut their Ayamonte branch. We have all our direct debits and other payments setup with them and now we have no local branch to talk to.
Can anybody recommend a local bank who do not have high bank charges for transferring money in and out. We would also like them to move our current Barclays direct debits over automatically. Those with online banking and English speaking staff would be an advantage especially during the initial setup period
Can anybody recommend a local bank who do not have high bank charges for transferring money in and out. We would also like them to move our current Barclays direct debits over automatically. Those with online banking and English speaking staff would be an advantage especially during the initial setup period
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Re: Best Banks in Ayamonte
Not collecting our pension yet, but time does fly. We are only using the account as a pass though and not holding much in there, so not too bother about the bank situation. Just after one with cheap monthly and transfer charges.
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The Club Senior account is free but you have to keep tabs as you do with any Spanish account. If they charge you dispute it and they generally back off and do a refund to the account. With the Club Senior you get extras which are useful and free so we use that as our main conduit for bringing money over and then move it about on this side in cash or DD for Electric, Water and IBI, EUC etc.
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Re: Best Banks in Ayamonte
We are with Barclays who have kindly cut back and shut their Ayamonte branch. We have all our direct debits and other payments setup with them and now we have no local branch to talk to.
Can anybody recommend a local bank who do not have high bank charges for transferring money in and out. We would also like them to move our current Barclays direct debits over automatically. Those with online banking and English speaking staff would be an advantage especially during the initial setup period
Can anybody recommend a local bank who do not have high bank charges for transferring money in and out. We would also like them to move our current Barclays direct debits over automatically. Those with online banking and English speaking staff would be an advantage especially during the initial setup period
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Re: Best Banks in Ayamonte
We are with Barclays who have kindly cut back and shut their Ayamonte branch. We have all our direct debits and other payments setup with them and now we have no local branch to talk to.
Can anybody recommend a local bank who do not have high bank charges for transferring money in and out. We would also like them to move our current Barclays direct debits over automatically. Those with online banking and English speaking staff would be an advantage especially during the initial setup period
Can anybody recommend a local bank who do not have high bank charges for transferring money in and out. We would also like them to move our current Barclays direct debits over automatically. Those with online banking and English speaking staff would be an advantage especially during the initial setup period
I have an account with Barclays in Huelva and can correspond with them in English by E-mail. I can let you have the contact addres if that would help.
I also have an account with the Banco Popular but they have relatively high charges although not as bad as Santander but with the utiltiies discount and free banking Barclays are still the cheapest that I have been able to find, so long as they remain in business of course!
kind regards,
Alaric
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Re: Best Banks in Ayamonte
Hi John & Lynn,
I have an account with Barclays in Huelva and can correspond with them in English by E-mail. I can let you have the contact addres if that would help.
I also have an account with the Banco Popular but they have relatively high charges although not as bad as Santander but with the utiltiies discount and free banking Barclays are still the cheapest that I have been able to find, so long as they remain in business of course!
kind regards,
Alaric
I have an account with Barclays in Huelva and can correspond with them in English by E-mail. I can let you have the contact addres if that would help.
I also have an account with the Banco Popular but they have relatively high charges although not as bad as Santander but with the utiltiies discount and free banking Barclays are still the cheapest that I have been able to find, so long as they remain in business of course!
kind regards,
Alaric
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Re: Best Banks in Ayamonte
I am not saying Barclays are expensive, in fact it was the perfect choice when they had the local Ayamonte branch. It's just that we need a local bank to pop into when we are over and don't want to have to go to Huevla. I know some of the other banks in the town can be expensive, so we are trying to find out which local ones are best for low charges and speaking a bit of English.
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Re: Best Banks in Ayamonte
We use Banco Popular. They know enough English that with our Spanlish we get by. Probably not the cheapest, though.
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Re: Best Banks in Ayamonte
Cheers all, we'll take a look at those mentioned