On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:24 AM, Brian Exelbierd <bex(a)pobox.com> wrote:
On Sat, Dec 17, 2016, at 04:51 PM, Zamir SUN wrote:
> > I checked and yes, only 6 Chinese banks connected to Transferwise[1].
> > But luckily two of them are easy to find in most cities in China.
> >
> Oops, I made a mistake. Only 6 banks are *not* acceptable. So this means
> it will not be a problem if the sender can send by Transferwise to China.
I want to make sure I understand. Do you mean that you believe
Transferwise has very good coverage for China?
Yes, I think so.
To be clear, I think we have 6 big banks in every city of China. Among
this 6 big banks only Bank of Communications and Agricultural Bank of
China are not available for transferwise. So I think this should be
fine for China.
>
>> > Unluckily this only works if reimburse to China is directly from US, or
>> > limited countries in EMEA while the cc holder of APAC is in Malaysia. So
>> > generally I think transferwise *may* be an option for some area since
>> > you already did it (smoothly I guess).
>
> If we adopt Transferwise as an alternative, I am happy to handle making
> the transfers if we have a situation where the card holders country
> prohibits it.
>
> regards,
>
> bex