The Friday Number
One route, one amount, every Friday. What really arrived, across the apps, with names attached.
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The Friday number: £300 to Lithuania this week
On £300 to a euro bank account in Lithuania this Friday morning, Wise arrived at the top with €353.33 after a £1.51 fee at the real exchange rate. Instarem came in €0.21 behind, essentially a tie. Skrill's zero fee is…
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The Friday number: £300 to Thailand this week
On £300 to a Thai baht bank account this Friday morning, Instarem arrived at the top with THB 13,245.22 (about £300) for a zero fee. Wise came in £1.47 behind, all of it in the £3.38 fee. Skrill's zero fee…
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The Friday number: £300 to Turkey this week
On £300 to a Turkish lira bank account this Friday morning, three apps arrived within about a pound of each other at the top: Instarem (TRY 19,344.86, zero fee), Remitly (TRY 19,280.76, £1.99 fee) and Wise (TRY 19,276.51, £2.85 fee…
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The Friday number: £300 to Nepal this week
On £300 to a Nepalese rupee bank account this Friday morning, Instarem arrived at the top with a zero fee and a rate about 0.66 percent below the real rate. Wise came in second, about £2.55 behind, held back by…
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The Friday number: £300 to Ghana this week
On £300 to a Ghanaian cedi bank account this Friday morning, Instarem arrived at the top with a zero fee and a rate about 0.8 percent below the real rate. Wise came in second, about £3.50 behind, held back by…
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The Friday number: £300 to Morocco this week
On £300 to a Moroccan dirham bank account this Friday morning, Remitly and Western Union arrived within about a pound and a half of each other at the top. Wise came third, held back by an £8.94 fee rather than…
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The Friday number: £300 to Egypt this week
On £300 sent from the UK to an Egyptian pound bank account this Friday morning, Remitly delivered the most at EGP 20,455.27 for a £0.99 fee. Wise came in about £5.20 behind, most of it lost to Wise's unusually heavy…
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The Friday number: £300 to Sri Lanka this week
On £300 to Sri Lanka this Friday morning, Instarem, Remitly and Wise all delivered within about a pound of each other. Xoom and OFX came in noticeably behind. Here is who to open and who to skip.
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The Friday number: £300 to Vietnam this week
On £300 sent from the UK to a Vietnam bank account this Friday morning, the top three apps arrived within about half a pound of each other, but the worst named app came in £18.24 behind, most of it quietly…
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The Friday number: £300 to Bangladesh this week
On £300 sent from the UK to a Bangladesh bank account this Friday morning, the gap between the best regular price and the worst named one came to about £5.62, most of it quietly taken in the exchange rate. Here…