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Re:El Salvador’s new Bitcoin wallets could cost Western Unio... by alkonaut on Thursday September 09, 2021 @09:44AM (#28469592)
Not sure if there is a receiving end fee, I don’t think so, but again my fee for iban/BIC (formerly swift) is $0 within EU/SEPA and $5 otherwise. So I expect to be able to transfer to El Salvador for $5 if I read the prices table correctly.
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Re:El Salvador’s new Bitcoin wallets could cost Western Unio... by el-salvador on Thursday September 09, 2021 @10:07AM (#28469847)
Yeah, El Salvador is not connected to EU SEPA.

We do have the similarly named SIPA for transfers between the SICA countries (Central America and Dominican Republic) Unfortunately SIPA is not that widespread. It costs about $7.

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