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by deskpro 4698 days ago
We'd love to move to Stripe; the one issue is that you can't send us $USD to our UK based $USD account via a wire transfer (like Amex does for example). Instead, it seems the only option is for you to send us £GBP after charging another 2% on top. This is both expensive currency conversion; but we also spend $USD so have to pay to turn our £GBP back into $USD!

Fix this, and we'd move in a heartbeat.

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We don't support making our daily transfers via wires, but if you have a US-routable USD bank account we can transfer USD to that without conversion.
Do you know of any UK bank that will provide a US-routable USD bank account?
Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com) might well do
HSBC will but they will charge you for it.
You don't happen to have a contact there do you? Can't find much online about it. So long I don't have to move other accounts that would work fine.
I don't but if ask in your branch I'm sure they will point you in the right direction.