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Dec 26, 2009 | 11:40 am

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greglvnv

Join Date: Nov 2009

Location: LAS/GRU/DUB

Programs: Amex, JPMR, Nexus

Posts: 376

Quote:

Originally Posted by Markonen

Any Euro-denominated account in the Euro zone would work for you. EU regulations dictate that payments within the zone are all considered "domestic", so a payment to the IEC account in Germany will cost the same as any other bill payment.

Thank you for that Markonen.

I contacted Citi UK and they offered me free SEPA transfers from my Euro account despite the 10 GBP fee shown on their website.
Now, they mentioned that not all banks in the Euro zone participate in SEPA and, obviously, I gave them the SWIFT/BIC for the Amex IEC and they said they do not participate in SEPA. What??

Can you do me a favor Markonen and check if it's correct? Like, would your bank let you make a SEPA transfer to the bank Amex uses in Germany?

Account Name : American Express Services Europe Limited
Bank A/C Number: 180 992 05
IBAN Number (International Bank Acct No.): DE28512305000018099205
SWIFT Number: SCBLDEFX

Beneficiary Bank:
Standard Chartered Bank Germany
Franklinstrasse 46-48
60486 Frankfurt, Germany

Please let me know if you got time for it.
I would love to see if Citi UK is full of it or not.

Thanks.

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