Does anybody have knowledge of, or better still has actually set up a facility with HSBC bank so as to transfer money out to another bank? Its called an Interbank Transfer??? Reason i ask is hubby and i are thinking of moving "semi-permenantly" to the Far East for a few years where we have friends and relatives. He is out there at present on a scouting mission, so to speak. With that in mind we are looking at the cheapest way of transfering larger sums of cash to our would-be Asian bank account, so as not to rely exclusively on Debit cards (for obvious reasons!!) This cheapest way has been decided, and it wll be a Halifax account just used to SWIFT the cash over to us in Asia. Also, i hear Halifax iallow this kind of transfer to be done electronically, unlike a few other banks i have been looking into, which is yet another reason why Halifax wins over other banks. Iwent into a local (but not one where our account is held) HSBC branch and they werent very helpful...saying we COULD get the facility but would entail moving to a Plus account, charging us 13 for the privilege, and then giving me the "hard sell" I just said "thanks, but no thanks" and left With all thats involved moving mortgages, direct debits, etc, we dont want all the hassle of quiting the HSBC, so see this as a way round all that. What i want to do is TELL them what i want and not ask them if they do it, but need to know 1st that they DO in fact do it All help appreciated
Linda