[Sunhelp] OT: International bank wire transfers

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Aug 30 11:15:04 CDT 2000


On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:19:50AM -0500, John Kennedy wrote:
> It does take a day or two for money to transfer between countries.  It
> works quickly domestically because all banks use the same system for
> wiring money.  When you leave the US a conversion to the other countries
> system is necessary.
> John

Actually I wired him the amount in US Dollars... but I guess they'd still
have to convert it into pounds, at the current exchange rate, when it got
there (which does explain for some of the delay).

Bill

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