Universal Bank

[Deniz1]

For those of you that bank in the Catalkoy branch they have a new lady manager Selda. She has been working in London and now here so very good english spoken Had a long chat with her today and she is full of good ideas and is trying to upgrade everything before the branch moves down the road a short distance soon.

[COG]

Thanks for that info. We've banked with them for many years mostly just for paying bills etc. Very mixed and often frustrating results, including one episode when we were given a complete stranger's bank book when we were having ours updated. Didn't realise til we got home.
Perhaps we can now look forward to them ' upping their game' !

[waddo]

Don't suppose they would consider "upping their game" to include sterling in the ATM? I did ask Credit West today if they were going to add sterling to their ATM, as they are proudly saying they are the EXPAT bank - got the shrug as normal.

[sophie]

I've been told by 3 Turkish banks here, that only they can dispense sterling under International Banking Rules and Regs. I.e. Garanti, TEB, Secker (there may be others but since HSBC "went", I can't think of any)

[Deniz1]

I did mention it to her its a cypriot bank so maybe they cant ? They have set up a new money transfer system which is quite inexpensive the bank was heaving yesterday.

[Agobard]

Sophie: you are correct in saying that only Turkish banks can dispense foreign currency via their ATMs. Apart from the ones that you mentioned, Is Bank also pays out sterling.