From: Dave 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Cross border transfers when internet banking.
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:11:58 GMT

Chris Blunt wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:15:05 GMT, Dave 
> wrote:
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>> With my internet banking, I can only transfer money to other banks in 
>> the UK.
>>
>> I was wondering whether this was the case in other countries or are 
>> they a bit more joined up e.g.. USA can transfer online to Canada, or 
>> Denmark to Finland for example?
>>   
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> I have accounts with HSBC in three countries, Jersey, Hong Kong and
> the Philippines, and all of them allow international transfers via
> internet banking. The UK is the only place I am aware of where they
> don't allow it. I'm not sure why that is.
>
> Chris
>  
>
Are you sure that all other countries allow it?  So are you saying that 
an account in USA or Austria for example could just transfer money with 
SWIFT through to another country like Greece or Mexico?