[Sunhelp] OT: International bank wire transfers

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Aug 30 11:14:19 CDT 2000


On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:14:35AM -0400, Rob Staab wrote:
> The transfer is pretty much instantaneous. The bank should know immeadiately
> that funds were transfered. Occassionally they have rules regarding how soon
> the money is posted to your account however. (This is so they can make money
> off of your money.)
> - Rob

This is true for domestic (US) wire transfers, but my bank told me this
morning that it can take up to 5 days for the money to be posted to the
recipient's account for international wire transfers.

I'm just too impatient I guess. 8-)

Bill

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