money transfer

Have you reviewed you registered data. Card #, expiry date, security code & exact name on card or account. I would think it would specify if you are attempting over your banks daily limit, but? If you are attempting a larger amount then perhaps trying a small test amount.

 

finally got the transfer done, turns out my card was blocked by the bank for fraud, took many phone calls to the bank to get it unblocked as the first few people i got must have been new there and kept telling me they had unblocked it but i eventually got through to someone intelligent and he explained that as there are many different types of fraud there are different types of blocks and he had removed them all, that was one week wasted, just as well i have nothing else to do.

 

When you call the bank hotline the person that tells you they authorised your card actually " put in a request" to open up your card. They request goes to the manager at your bank who authorises the card. At least that's how it works at Metro Bank.
I was in France and spent a few days on the phone with the bank and the credit card company. Eventually I got annoyed and called my branch manager. He said he hadn't received a request yet to enable my card but he did that straight away. He said he had no control over the credit card but he would "make a call". I called him back after 30 minutes, problem solved.
The kids on the phone don't have the authority they think they have.

 

When, back in old Blighty, I recently applied to transfer money into my Filipino bank account from a U.K. bank account using Wise, I was red flagged by my U.K. bank and had to contact them to be able to proceed with the transaction. Be aware of the new U.K. legislation put into place to minimise the risk of scammers targeting vulnerable older people as it may become an obstacle, particularly if personal data has not been updated recently…

 

Banks have shifted business online and then applied stringent rules to, in effect, frustrate customers accessing their own money! But no problem - they get their fat bonuses come Christmas.

I agree that money should not be sent to terrorists (who, other than terrorists, do not agree?!) but it's just an excuse to stop ordinary folk having control of their money whilst the super-rich (and, sometimes, dodgy characters) flow millions around the World with very little hassle.

 

The official reasons presented to the masses were to stop money laundering and reduce the risk of fraud and deception, in reality it represents an obstacle to accessing one’s own money.
Many had, for various reasons, arranged for their state pension to be paid into their Wise account, that’s not longer possible, just to give you an example…

 

That's interesting. I was thinking of transferring my pensions to the Wise account. What was the reason for curtailing that?

 

I believe Wise is not recognised as a fully fledged bank by the U.K. government but I might be entirely wrong…need to make more searches!

 

I bank with Lloyds in UK and use Wise to transfer to Phills. This involves an intermediate transfer to another Lloyds account in UK which can then be accessed directly from the Wise website. The transfer to Phills is then done from the intermediate account. I was thinking to have the pensions paid directly into the intermediate Lloyds account.

 

You obviously have a Filipino bank account to transfer the money into. In this case, why not having your U.K. state pension paid directly into it?