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  • Accept incoming international currencies

Hi everyone 👋

I see this topic is changing into a combined topic for 2 ideas. This topic is explicitly about the idea of being able to receive other currencies, or bunq being able to automatically exchange them when receiving a transfer. At the moment bunq accounts can only accept EURO transfers.

If you wish to vote for the idea about holding different/other currencies you can leave your feedback here: https://together.bunq.com/d/1021-accounts-in-other-currency

    24 days later
    Tim changed the title to Accept incoming international currencies.
      10 months later

      Hier nog een vote voor currencies kunnen ontvangen. Ik snap niet dat Bunq de wereld kleiner wil maken zoals Ali laatst noemde in de POM podcast maar dan alleen maar euro’s ontvangt.

        a year later

        Another vote for receiving money in another currency, USD. Otherwise moving to Revolut which supports this

          @New-Turquoise-Kiwi-2928004516#231540 This feature has already been announced at the last update and is currently in Beta testing phase with 100 users. See: https://together.bunq.com/d/45257

          With these accounts you can receive SWIFT payments in the respective currency of the account and then either exchange it into Euro (or another supported currency), use it for card payments or send it along.

            Thanks Jacob, appreciate that. Just checking how the exchange rate compares to Revolut

              @New-Turquoise-Kiwi-2928004516#231545

              Edit: Updated information is now available in the official announcement post over here https://together.bunq.com/d/45414 and pricing information is available here https://together.bunq.com/d/46469

              No worries ;) You can already find the pricing information in the Pricing Sheet (subject to changes before the official launch of course!). A few main points:

              • Opening the first local currency account for a given currency costs 9.99 Euros, but afterwards you can create more sub-accounts of the same currency for no extra costs.
              • Exchanging between currencies costs 0.5% of the amount. The exchange rate is actually a bit unclear to me (I'm a beta user myself). In the pricing document it says "Mastercard exchange rate" but in my experience so far the rate was actually better and closer to mid-market rate.
              • There are transaction fees for receiving and sending SWIFT payments. Incoming is 10 Euro/payment and outgoing is also 10 Euro/payment for shared cost. But you will also be able to get local payment details for select currencies, and receiving such a payment costs only 70 Cents.
              • You can connect your cards to the local currency account and pay directly from it. For example when you pay for something in USD from a USD account, there are no fees at all.

              All in all, pretty similar to how it works at the competitor that you mentioned ;)

                Thanks Jakob (3rd time lucky spelling it correctly!!)

                  9 months later

                  @Jakob-Y#231546 Pleased correct SWIFT Feedback, they are now depending in transfer value and Up to 25 Euro

                    @Andreas-Silver-Quokka#259215 The post is indeed from 2021. Conditions at bunq are subject to change. The official threads that I also linked to should be up to date :)

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