As others have commented, Chase CTG make sup for the ocnvenience with terrible conversion rates.
For example for 2/25/00, the Interbank rate is $1 USD = $6.7377 FRF. At CTG, $1 USD. = $ 6.4103 FRF. So converting $1000 USD will "cost" you $327 Francs or about $50 USD!