Getting money back to Uk when I've not got a UK bank account

Banking & Financial
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Hi all


Desperately trying to help a friend who needs to get money back to the UK on a regular basis to pay outstanding bills (about £200 a month)- but he doesn't have a UK bank account. He gets paid in euros and has a french bank account here - the only way we have found to get money back is via La Poste but they charge 14€ for every transaction. I suggested caxtonfx as I know this works brilliantly for small money from Uk to here - but they don't do transactions the other way from france to UK. Can anyone offer a solution that isn't going to cost my friend a fortune. He has very little money and is incurring penalty costs on his debts in UK just because he can't get his euros over there.


Look forward to hearing from you



jules

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Thanks Irene

I'll look into this

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I think that you will find Western Union very expensive. Try a Paypal account, only expensive if you are selling online.

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Thanks Doreen

He has tried via his own bank (credit agricole) and also with Barclays in Toulouse and neither were able to offer any help unless he was transferring into a UK bank account of his own (doesn't help that his level of french is very basic and the bank manager has no English at all)

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Thanks very much Irene

He knew about Western Union but thought they were very expensive - however I've just done a simulation and they are offering something similar to my HSBC bank transfer rates - so this could be a good way forward for him.