EU Commissioner Calls for Faster Cross Border Bank Transfers
The EU’s single market commissioner, Frits Bolkestein, has today urged EU banks to speed up payments between banks and reduce the cost of cross-border money transfers. Currently customers making cross border transfers are frequently subjected to double charging and the charge levied on international transfers is ten times greater than that for a transfer between two domestic banks.
Financial Times
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