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i've been banking with barclays since arriving. happy enough to date and very easy to move cash to my uk accounts [also barclays, been with them since uni].
barclays sold their uae retail banking arm to ADIB earlier this year. i've just had an email from them saying that the process of transferring barclays customer's to ADIB has started and will conclude in november.
just wondering if anyone on here banks with ADIB and what your views are? or for those in finance, what kind of reputation do they have? lastly who is the least s
t banking provider out there at the moment?
my main concern is flexibility. i need to be able to transfer cash to my uk accounts with a minimum of fuss and i have one eye on the uae exit door at the moment.
barclays sold their uae retail banking arm to ADIB earlier this year. i've just had an email from them saying that the process of transferring barclays customer's to ADIB has started and will conclude in november.
just wondering if anyone on here banks with ADIB and what your views are? or for those in finance, what kind of reputation do they have? lastly who is the least s
t banking provider out there at the moment?my main concern is flexibility. i need to be able to transfer cash to my uk accounts with a minimum of fuss and i have one eye on the uae exit door at the moment.
As you know mate all the banks here are total garbage.
But... if you're just using them for the basics then it's fine. Normal day to day banking is ok and with internet banking, moving stuff about is fine.
I think like my bank, ENBD, there's a limit to how much you can electronically transfer AED 100k I think.
If you're moving large numbers about don't use them, use a currency house. Will save you a fair bit in exchange rates.
But... if you're just using them for the basics then it's fine. Normal day to day banking is ok and with internet banking, moving stuff about is fine.
I think like my bank, ENBD, there's a limit to how much you can electronically transfer AED 100k I think.
If you're moving large numbers about don't use them, use a currency house. Will save you a fair bit in exchange rates.
I think Citi are probably the best of a bad bunch now, whether I could be arsed with the hassle of changing I don't know though, they'll inevitably be a cock up in the changeover!
I'm with HSBC who are crap although my missus works for them so I have a direct line in to sort anything out of the ordinary out which helps massively, I do most of it online tbh and they're internat banking is good, I can view my UK accounts using the same log in.
I'm with HSBC who are crap although my missus works for them so I have a direct line in to sort anything out of the ordinary out which helps massively, I do most of it online tbh and they're internat banking is good, I can view my UK accounts using the same log in.
Just getting credit card with ADIB. I've had no issues with HSBC, although I deal mainly with Jersey - seems really good - they are the only bank we found with a decent link up of systems between countries. I can do everything on phone / or internet, with relative ease. The currency accounts were all easy, we dont use them for the FX portion, but I cant fault them apart from that. They dont give interest, but they dont charge anything either - seems OK to me. I get a call from the account team (local and international) every other month, they fixed anything that came up.
I didnt even have to go to a branch to set it up - they came to the office!
I didnt even have to go to a branch to set it up - they came to the office!
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