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Banking- Wire Transfers
Skrill account
How and where does one retrieve the funds from a skrill account / transfer? I looked at their website
and all I could make of it was " if you have an e-mail addy you can send funds". I'm sure
I missed the " jest" of things.
How and where does one retrieve the funds from a skrill account / transfer? I looked at their website
and all I could make of it was " if you have an e-mail addy you can send funds". I'm sure
I missed the " jest" of things.
Yes, usually BPD charges me 220 pesos for the money received from Skrill, does not matter the amount.
Well, I am doing the Scotia bank thing. I emailed them, in English, and actually got a response.
Question for folks who have done this...
The bank reference letter. If I call my bank in the US, can I assume they will know what to do when I ask for a reference letter?
And, for the letter from a "Dominican Professional", any idea what that entails? And who qualifies as a professional?
Question for folks who have done this...
The bank reference letter. If I call my bank in the US, can I assume they will know what to do when I ask for a reference letter?
And, for the letter from a "Dominican Professional", any idea what that entails? And who qualifies as a professional?
I asked BHD/Leon to send me details about how transfer money from US or European banks to my own account in BHD/Leon (peso or dollar). They send me a long list of details with:
1- Name of a bank in US or Europe + address
2- The US or European IBAN or SWIFT number
3- The BHD/Leon OWN account number in that bank (not mine)
Now they say after the above you have to give your details (customer) and your bank account number somehow.
But in all online transfer forms (or paper transfer forms) that I use there is no place to type in extra information, there is usually a small place as "Ref:", but that's not always available.
When I usually transfer money from a bank to someone, I put his personal account number in (3) above, so I am wondering how this works for DR banks. It seems BHD/Leon does not have it's own SWIFT or IBAN and it's not on the international banking system.
How do you guys do a transfer, filling up online forms, and where do you specify your own personal (local) BHD/Leon account number !?
(To make it easy, as an example, give me a dummy online form of Bank of America to BHD/Leon transfer - on the BoA online transfer form there is no place for any extra info !?)
1- Name of a bank in US or Europe + address
2- The US or European IBAN or SWIFT number
3- The BHD/Leon OWN account number in that bank (not mine)
Now they say after the above you have to give your details (customer) and your bank account number somehow.
But in all online transfer forms (or paper transfer forms) that I use there is no place to type in extra information, there is usually a small place as "Ref:", but that's not always available.
When I usually transfer money from a bank to someone, I put his personal account number in (3) above, so I am wondering how this works for DR banks. It seems BHD/Leon does not have it's own SWIFT or IBAN and it's not on the international banking system.
How do you guys do a transfer, filling up online forms, and where do you specify your own personal (local) BHD/Leon account number !?
(To make it easy, as an example, give me a dummy online form of Bank of America to BHD/Leon transfer - on the BoA online transfer form there is no place for any extra info !?)
Yes, your home bank will know what to do.
Length of relationship, average balance maybe.... that sort of thing
Length of relationship, average balance maybe.... that sort of thing
Of course BHD has it.
Google is your friend...
https://www.bhdleon.com.do/app/do/personal_producto_det.aspx?id=621
http://www.theswiftcodes.com/dominican-republic/
Banco Popular had similar requirements when I opened my account. The letter of reference from my bank simply stated that I had an account with them, and it was in good standing. I used my Real Estate agent as the other reference. I would imagine you could use your landlord, or rental agent.
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Okay, so it doesn't necessarily need to be a Dominican, just someone with a cedulla/residency?
Not sure about your second link, but the first link is what they quoted me too. The problem is right there:
Wells Fargo
New York, N.Y.
ABA: 026005092
SWIFT: PNBPUS3NNYC
A Favor de:
ACC: 2000192003764
BNF: Banco BHD Le?n, S.A.
BCBHDOSDXXX
As you can see the first part is the details of Wells Fargo bank and the SWFT for them, but the second part (after "A favor de:") is the BHD/Leon account details - where does customer/personal account go !? No idea....
(I think this is best replied from someone who mentioned on this thread that has done this transfer before from BoA to BHD/Leon.)
it is just amazing how some of you think that the DR is on the freaking moon or extra terrestrial land...your transfer takes one or two days to show upo and your local bank will charge you around 22 USD, the DR is juts 3rd world you know? is not afganistan
not even that in some banks, PASSPORT will suffice...be aware that any banking is subject to FACTCA, courtesy of your US goverment
and how do you get 100,000 pesos out of an ATM? you do 10 transfers of 10k? but there is a LIMIT of 20k per day on ATMs so that is not a practical solution therefore the reason why people get a DR account.
My U.S. bank charges $45 USD for an international wire transfer now, unless you have something like $10,000 in your account - sleeping. This used to **** me off, but it is the most efficient way some times. Arrives at BP next day. No problem. It really is good to have an account in the DR if you spend much time here.
My perspective on the wire transfer fee changed after having Xoom screw me many times with their conversion rate to pesos - but I think the solution to that is to send dollars and have recipient pick up dollars - no conversion. One more step for recipient, but well worth it I think. This is for a different purpose, not to deposit to bank account.
Xoom says you can pay your bills in DR through them too. No chance in hell. And, they now apparently sell cell phone credit too lol.