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Like I said, you can see all the fees when you initiate the transfers.
I just opened the app, and right now if I want to send 100 euro from my Wise EU account to local CIMB account. It says:
0.88 EUR: Balance transfer fee.
99.12 EUR: Total amount we'll convert
4.56295: Guaranteed exchange rate
Recipient gets: 452.28 MYR
Here you can already see the fees, the exchange and how much you're getting.
Ah! I see. but this only applicable when the sender also using Wise account. So presumably sender using their local bank (not wise account) to bank in USD into my WISE USD account, I guess I would need to request sender to check what is their bank fee to wise account and increase the amount so that the sender would bare the transfer fee.
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And yes, I will get MYR452.28 in my local CIMB account, no additional fees or charges by banks.
If the person is transferring from a US account to your WISE US account, and presumably there is free transfer among US banks/institutiosn, then you should get 100 USD in your WISE US account.
Can I say if my wise USD account just to accept (receive ) USD from sender, if sender using their local bank (instead of wise account) to transfer USD to my wise account, I need to request sender to check the charges and probably to up for the transfer fee charges ?
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At least that's my experience with Euro. I have another Euro account, and I top up my Wise account to use as prepaid card. Thanks to EU regulations, transfer between EU accounts are free. So I transfer 100 euro from my own EU account to my Wise EU account, no fees. But withdrawing from my Wise EU account does have some fees, but I never withdraw and just use it as prepaid card. And of course I also top up my WISE EU account, to send back as MYR occasionally.
Upon receiving USD in my WISE USD account, withdraw from wise account to local bank (example: maybank) after convert it to MYR, does it have some fee here?
You need to be aware that Wise is a multi-currency account. You need to "open" an account for each country you're interested.
That's why I always specify Wise US account. If you go to the Wise website, you can see images with different country flags in the app - each flag represent an account.
E.g. a person can hold:
100 USD
150 Euro
50 in SGD
200 GBP
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All at the same time, within the Wise app. There is not just one WISE account, but it depends on how many account/countries you wish to open (AFAIK it's one account per country).
For me and likely for you, there is no need to open a Wise MY account since we already have a local bank. In your case, you would need to tap and "open" a US account within Wise first, which will give you the US account details you can forward to the sender in US.
However, if for example you opena GBP (UK) account in your WISE app and you give this UK account details to your friend in US, then there could be bank charges since the bank in US is paying in USD to a UK account.
From your WISE US account to your local MY CIMB account, that is correct.
I'm not sure about US -> MY, I've only done Euro to MYR. The first transaction might take longer, but these days for me it's usually 1 business day. Actually no, since last year I think it's within minutes for me.
Understand this. Thanks thanks!
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Edit: btw, I can provide you with a referral code before you sign up so you can waive the transfer fees for your first transfer.
Transfer here is it refer to : from my WISE USD account transfer to my local bank account (maybank) right ? If yes, then sure! because my main motive is to accept USD funds to my WISE account and transfer it to my local bank account. You may pm me the referral code. thank!