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"high interest accounts"  do you mean bank accounts? please clarify. saludos, jer...
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| Posts: 12254 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 |  |
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Freddy - as you live in UK, why don't you look into HALIFAX? They provide some excellent products in UK ( www.halifax.co.uk )and currently their Internet Saver account is paying 4.30% Interest or thereabouts. But more innterestingly, they have opened and continue to open branches in Spain. See www.halifax.es So if you look on the website you can see that transfers from UK to Spain (UK Pounds to Euros) are done without any nasty bank charges which can add up if you are sending many small amounts. So money in Halifax account in UK can be switched to your Spanish account easily. Also your local Halifax UK bank could be of some help if you ever ran into a problem. Opening an account is easy but don't expect any Spanish bank to give good interest on a current accounnt. It's the service and convenience you need. And also savings on transfers of Pounds to Euros in Spain. Nige |
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| Posts: 236 | Location: Cadiz Province and Sussex England | Registered: 07 October 2002 | |
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rebrites Although I don�t receive any interest on my account here, which I know is the subject of this thread, I do transfer monies between US and here quite regularly and easily. I write a cheque from my Bank of America account, pay it in to my spanish account, the bank credits my account that day, though I am not really supposed to draw on that money till six days later, and the commission on that is 5.5%, so on $5000 I paid 22�. pd For those wanting to know why I pulled such a large amount of dollars with the exchange so bad....my daughter is getting married in September, like jer and ena, and she has found the dress of her dreams, so needed funds to get that and the pink cadillac wedding car she has set her heart on.........
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| Posts: 1817 | Location: Montaña Blanca, Lanzarote | Registered: 02 March 2002 | |
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- rent or buy a cell phone from me for your stay in spain, more info at 
- already have a cell phone, get a spanish SIM card for it at 
