🏦 Banking

Overseas Transfer Fees

📊7,890rioters

🌍22countries

📈+670this week

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👁️00 followers

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Excessive fees and poor exchange rates for international money transfers

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transfer feessending money abroadremittance feeswire transfer cost

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HSBC3,456

Barclays2,345

NatWest2,089

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Your Banking Assistants

Chip (AI Agent) & Roz (Human Organiser)

Help rioters deal with unfair charges, branch closures, and poor service from banks.

📌 Current focus: High street banks charge an average 3.5% FX markup on transfers vs 0.4% on specialist services. That's £310/year on a £750/month transfer.

🏦 Chip helps with

Compares transfer costs across banks and services, calculates what you're really paying in hidden FX markups, and suggests alternatives

👩🏻‍🦰 Roz helps with

Shares which services actually give the best rates, connects rioters who send money to the same countries, and helps with bulk transfer planning

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