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Tenderloin
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For reference I paid a flat £6 fee and got a rate of 1.32710 USD/GBP on 16th August. This was a SWIFT/CHAPS transfer from the US to my bog standard Barclays Bank current account.
Their listed
FX Reference Rateon that day was1.2916 USD/GBPand theirFX Margin Percentagewas2.75%(these combine to make the1.32710 USD/GBPrate they did the conversion on).So if I'd transferred $10k I'd have paid £6 plus (10k/1.2916)-(10k/1.3271) =~ £200 in fees.
If I was transferring $100k I'd probably pay a bit more attention.