Jackal wrote:I've been attempting to take receipt of some monies owed to me by a firm in Ireland via international transfer.
My ABA branch tell me that my a/c number, SWIFT code, address, bank address and telephone number is all that is needed.
The secretary in Ireland requires either an IBAN or a BIC (Bank ID Code). ABA, on three visits, have not been able to help me further with this.
From googling I found this from ABA online :
ABA Bank, Advenced Bank of Asia , Phnom Penh Cambodia. ... of the instruction is client's name, address, account number (IBAN) and SWIFT code of our bank.
Which leads me to think I can just give my account number as the IBAN?? Or does somebody know a BIC for ABA bank??
Could anybody help? It would be nice to get this transfer out today, it's been tangled up for a few weeks now and is becoming a nuisance . . .
Thanks in advance.
From Ireland, you will need:
- Your ABA account number (local format), the account name, the city name you have used as your address when registering the bank account.
- The ABA Swift code, the ABA bank name, the town the bank is located.
And: Best transfer the amount in EUR and let the Cambodian bank convert into USD. Saves you roughly 1.5% in over charges at the Irish bank and the money will likely not go through a US bank, which grabs another 0.1% or more percent of the transaction amount. (And the US spyers won't see the transaction direct, only if the have a tap on Swift itself).
Take care to specifiy "shared costs".
If the secretary talks about IBAN, she is looking at the national/EU transfer section in her banking package. She has to go to the international/world-wide department.
Assuming you have some kind of electronic banking, you can expect the money to show up after 2-3 days.