{"id":11748,"date":"2016-05-01T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/wheres-the-clarity-we-wanted-to-be-billed-in-rupees-and-got-sterling\/"},"modified":"2016-05-01T13:20:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T06:20:43","slug":"wheres-the-clarity-we-wanted-to-be-billed-in-rupees-and-got-sterling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/wheres-the-clarity-we-wanted-to-be-billed-in-rupees-and-got-sterling\/","title":{"rendered":"Where\u2019s the Clarity? We wanted to be billed in rupees and got sterling"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWe\u2019re keen on the Halifax card but this time, although we specified the currency, it was ignoredI have been a keen user of a Halifax Clarity Card for foreign travel over several years. It is highly recommended by Guardian Money, Which? and other columns for its freedom from commission and competitive exchange rates. Users are, however, advised to specify local currency, not sterling, for transactions. On a recent trip to India, I did just that, except for one small one at the start on my trip (which was my error), only to find that five transactions, mostly fairly large, were charged to my account in sterling, at an exchange rate over 5% worse than if they had gone through in rupees. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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