Creditwest , highest bank fees I have ever seen

[Cocofllanel]

cash withdrawals abroad is 4.63% on credit card

on ( maestro) debit card 8%



Incoming wires , minimum 36,05 GBP, USD,EUR

Outgoing wire shared , minimum 61,8

Outgoing wire , all charges on you minimum 149,35



Are those typical fees with banks in N-Cyprus ?

[poppy++1]

Hence why people are moving banks

[alphamike]

Indeed Poppy, been wanting to move for ages, but needed to keep them for residency, only got 6 months due to new exemption, so having to hold on with them until January now. That is if I am still here with the way things are going.

[poppy++1]

People are moving Banks asap after residency.
Garanti in particular very busy with new custom., Albank is getting more people going there.
Unfortunately some banks no longer have the excellent customer service they were known for.

[gates]

There cash machine great drawing money from uk

[waddo]

Gates, Which cash machine??

[gates]

Credit west atms

[waddo]

So Credit West ATMs have finally allowed sterling in their ATM's? We left them because they told us that because they were not an International Bank they were not allowed to dispense Sterling?

[gates]

No can’t get STG but lira no charge

[poppy++1]

Don’t think any bank charge for TL withdrawal,
Credit West has never dispensed Sterling…

[waddo]

Sorry, this post from Gates - "There cash machine great drawing money from uk" - confused me, I just wondered now why you would draw TL from the UK? Or am I missing something here??

[gates]

On my wise card I can convert to lira at better rate than anywhere and draw it out here free in lira and the credit West Bank does not charge you unlike most other banks

[alphamike]

There are quite a few banks ATMs where you can withdraw TL using UK bank card without incurring charges at this end. I use Revolut, Chase and Starling debit cards here with no charges at either end for withdrawing TL.
Funnily enough Creditwest wouldn't let me use whatever card I tried a while back, so haven't tried again.