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Re:Europe's Banks Launch Wero Payments to Dislodge Visa, Mas... by z3n0n on Friday September 27, 2024 @03:29AM (#41667349)
Literally every bank to bank transfer in Europe? Edit: apparently there are some complexities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area (sees Charges) but personally I've never paid a single cent either
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Re:Europe's Banks Launch Wero Payments to Dislodge Visa, Mas... by berdario on Friday September 27, 2024 @03:50AM (#41667475)
Yeah, it's a bit of a mess.

https://wise.com/help/articles/2956754/what-are-sepa-transfe...

> However, while banks shouldn’t charge for receiving SEPA payments, unfortunately there is a very small number that may still do so.

I can also confirm for example that (despite the UK still being in SEPA), wire transfers of Euro from Unicredit in Italy are getting extra charges when sent to a british IBAN (Unicredit is charging the sending side).

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