Currency conversions for digital nomads

Living in the UK I have an Irish bank account with KBC Ireland and I use Revolut to transfer money to Ireland ‘free’ from the UK. You could do the same in theory from the US to Revolut to Monzo (UK). Transferwise is a great alternative.

Anyone can sign up to it though, I have. I just don’t use it because Revolut are similar but I have a card.

Unfortunately Transferwise is not an option when moving funds out of the Upwork.com platform. They do however have the option to use Payoneer. I am looking into moving USD from Upwork to Payoneer (received as USD) and then setup a Starling bank account and have Starling do the mastercard / no markup conversion.

Starling look like everything i hoped for with Monzo. I will be setting up with them straight away. I will keep hold of the Monzo account though, once it matures if will be useful!

Thanks for the input everyone! been a great help.

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