Can anyone confirm that it is possible to pay a US cheque into a UK bank account. I know there is usually a charge but they are fairly large cheques
Confirmed my Google Adsense cheques used to come from the US and I never had a problem paying them in.
Just pay them in - the bank will do the conversion.
Phone the bank first!! You never know, it may not be.
Some UK banks will insist you open a second kind of sub-account for foreign payments. They usually run alongside your normal account and are in effect invisible.
Not a problem, my wife cashed a cheque a few months back. The cashier in the bank fills in a special form, your show them some ID, they tick lots of
boxes and you leave with a photocopy of the cheque and a copy of the paperwork.
The lady behind the counter told us that is could take up to 8 weeks to clear but is usually cleared within a week.
For this you get charged a fee (think about £14) and recieve a letter from the bank informing you that the cheque is being processed and the money
will be in your bank shortly.
Charge depends on bank. HSBC wanted to charge me £25 to deposit a £35 cheque, Barclays did it for free
yes, natwest did it for me. Bu you get stung left, right and centre with charges, conversion rate, commission ...
quote:interesting to note. my wife has dividend cheques from some shares in a US company she used to work for. they're usually tiny cheques, paid every 6months i think, but if barclays would do that for free, it would save her collecting loads and then asking the company to send a larger cheque (that's what they've told her to do in the past as they won't pay into her bank account)
Originally posted by jabsCharge depends on bank. HSBC wanted to charge me £25 to deposit a £35 cheque, Barclays did it for free