Originally Posted by phillipas
Or, of course, (near enough) any other currency. We wouldn't want to give the OP a US-centric view of the world, would we?
US-centric view not intended, but actually in dealing with the Bank of China they told me for RMB to be wired out it had to go into USD first, even though I was wiring to another country in Asia... so from that experience I gathered that anytime you want to wire money out it has to be in USD.