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Old Dec 13, 2004 | 5:47 am
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Originally Posted by Andrius
Well, it used to be that withdrawing foreign currency abroad on your DEBIT card was the cheapest way.

Not anymore: many banks (incl. Barclays and Citibank) started applying the same charges for debit card cash transactions abroad as they do for credit card transactions.
I can't repeat often enough the tip to use Nationwide Visa cards when outside the UK.

Nationwide Visa! Nationwide Visa! Nationwide Visa! (that's enough repetition for now ...)

0% foreign use fee and 0% currency fee for the credit card - and 0.5% cashback. 1.5% foreign use fee and 0.% curency fee for the debit card.

It's a no-brainer.

And for you Travelex travellers cheques fans, the Nationwide debit card does not charge extra as a 'cash' transaction at Travelex UK.

www.nationwide.co.uk.
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