was recommended by a friend to WISE when i asked whether are there any alternative payment channels which i could use for online transactions and at the same time, be kept separate from my other principal accounts.

https://wise.com/my/

anyone currently using it?

any pros/cons?

yes its legit

pros
- competitive exchange rate
- intuitive app
- allows you to have multiple foreign currency account

cons
- there's transfer and withdrawal limits


there's a discussion thread at Finance section

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4953197/+1580

This post has been edited by ZeneticX: May 25 2023, 07:10 PM

legit, if you are transferring money between countries of your bank accounts.

or if you wish to go to a country to travel, you can use wise card which has that currency that you have topped up prior so you dont have to be charged horrible rates by local banks

Legit.

My fren working offshore using it

Me using it for foodpandan

X10 better than credit kad

Legit, using it to transfer money to Singapore bank & trading accounts.

Good stuff! Can't think of any cons for what I'm doing.

Yes, have used it several times to transfer money to Malaysia. Very competitive fees compared to other services, and very fast as well.

not sure if it's a direct competitor/direct alternative or not

but i'm now using merchantrade money multi-currency wallet

Legit.

Using it myself for IBKR funding

👀🍿🍷🤤

X10 better than credit card in what sense?

I have "normal" bank issued cc, I have some niche cc, with no extra fee for currency conversion, only use Mastercard official rate with no extra surcharche.

Now when I go abroad naturally the latter card with no conversion fee is a lot better than that normal bank issued cc with conversion fees.

But, transfering the money with Wise to a local bank account actually has an even lower cost than that "no fees" cc. As long as the amount is fairly high, like above RM5000.
Wise fees are even lower than the official MC/Visa conversion rate.

I get the conversion fees, many mentioned it

But i’m surprised that you could use credit card to transfer to local bank account

Legit for quite some time lo ... better then paypal. International conman always prefer paypal. For wise the dispute tribunal support is WAY better then paypal.

Not till food panda screw u over then u know why cc is better

just used Wise for my travel, very convenient and the exchange rates are as per XE.com

Not all bank ya , some bank do charge cash advance fee to use wise . Alot ppl kena dy so pandai pandai read the TNC

So it’s cash advance. Crazy to use credit card for that purpose, should not even be in consideration in the first place

Anyway I doubt wise has cash advance

This post has been edited by Lembu Goreng: May 25 2023, 09:59 PM

Double

This post has been edited by Lembu Goreng: May 25 2023, 09:58 PM

Triple

This post has been edited by Lembu Goreng: May 25 2023, 09:58 PM

thanks for all the replies, great to know that it is legit.

already registered and account!