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The problem with CurrencyFair is that you are still left paying the wire fee in a lot of jurisdictions. Sometimes this fee is larger than local banks. In Canad
by hackerboos 11y ago
The problem with CurrencyFair is that you are still left paying the wire fee in a lot of jurisdictions.
Sometimes this fee is larger than local banks. In Canada for example I can wire money for $13.50 CAD ($9.50 US) up to $2500 CAD to almost anywhere in the world. CurrencyFair wrongly estimates Canadian bank fees at $35.00 CAD.
They also only have bank accounts in certain jurisdictions. For example they ask customers in Canada to wire money to their bank in New York rather than say by Interac which would cost Canadian a lot customers nothing.
I also find it strange they ignore what I would have thought was the largest market for remittance. Namely India and the Philippines. They also don't support the US because of the state licensing mess that the US requires for money transfer services [1].
[1] - https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/licenses https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/licenses
- mootothemax 11y ago>They also don't support the US because of the state licensing mess that the US requires for money transfer services. It's been a while since I last accepted a payment from a US client - maybe a year? - into CF's US account, and I didn't have any issues then. Do you know how recently this changed?
- hackerboos 11y agoI think that's allowed. My impression is that you as the end receiver are not allowed to be in the US. >I live in the US can I still use you? >Unfortunately at this time we are not licensed to receive business from United States residents. We do hope this will change in the future but for now we are unable to provide a timeline as to when this might happen.