International banking complications
Courtesy of several international banking posts that I’ve done over on Foreign Perspectives, I get a stream of requests for assistance in getting bank accounts from people in various situations that you just wouldn’t imagine that people would find themselves in.
For example, just this morning I received a request for help from a South African teacher working in Sudan, paid in British pounds by the school. That would be OK, but because they don’t have a UK bank account, the school pays the money to another South African who in turn transfers it to him. Quite why the school wouldn’t transfer the money directly to him in South African rand, I don’t know but they don’t.
So, he’s looking for a UK bank account to cut out the middleman in this equation.
The ideal solution is either for him to approach the bank that the school uses or alternatively consider the Co-Operative Bank in Guernsey who might help him as they’re quite keen on supporting charities and presumably this school is one run by an aid organisation.
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