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Ask HN: Freelancers in EU, best bank to get paid in USD?
To my fellow freelancers who live in the EU: What's the best bank to get paid in USD? I live in Germany and currently use Revolut, which works fine. But I don't particularly like the company and the app experience. I'm planning to switching to Wise, even though they are more expensive.
Do you have any recommendations?
- drakonka 4y agoI've used Wise for this and have had no complaints.
- toomuchtodo 4y ago+1 for Wise
- JonChesterfield 4y agoTransferWise. Except they renamed it Wise at some point. Zero bother and cheap as far as I can tell (costs get buried in exchange rates on some of these things).
- nerdawson 4y agoWise Borderless account. You get US account details to give your client and can transfer to your local currency at near perfect rates. I wasted thousands of dollars by not moving to that system sooner.
- anyfoo 4y agoIn the German expat community, Wise is indeed well-known and often recommended. But what's with that name change? A few years ago they went from TransferWise to Wise. That seems like such a generic name, and now in that same community you see so many people say thing like "Wise (ex-TransferWise)", and here in the comments as well. I thought about how much of a bad idea this name change was years ago when it happened, and the still ongoing disambiguation when mentioning it makes me feel that I was right...
- llampx 4y agoGoEuro is another one. Went from a great name to one where you can't tell what they do from the name itself.
- d--b 4y agoThey went from doing transfers to doing full banking, hence dropping the Transfer in TransferWise. I’ve been using them since inception, and I saved so much money compared to what I was doing before, I couldn’t care less what their name is.
- d--b 4y agoI’ve been using Wise too. It works fine.
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- darnfish 4y agoHow come you don't like Revolut?