Receive money from outside the UK or in a foreign currency

Get sent money from outside the UK

Receive pounds or a foreign currency.
No Lloyds Bank fee for payments in euros from within the EEA or UK.
Find your IBAN and BIC in our Mobile Banking app or Internet Banking.

What details you'll need to give expandable section
For your payment to be transferred as quickly as possible, you'll need to give the sender your:

full name

address

IBAN

BIC.

You can find your IBAN and BIC using Internet Banking or our app.

Mobile Banking app guide expandable section
Log on to our app and select the More option from your account.

Choose Send bank details. Then select Send international details.

From the list, choose the preferred messaging app you want to use to send your banking details.

Select who you want to send the details to from your list of contacts.

All done - you’ve shared your account details.
Internet Banking guide expandable section
Log on to Internet Banking and select an account.

Choose the View IBAN / BIC link.

All done. You can now give your IBAN or BIC to your sender.

Getting started online

If you don't bank online expandable section

You can call us if you're not registered for Internet Banking. If you prefer to bank in person, there’s range of services in your local area.

Let’s look at the details

Fees that apply to electronic payments expandable section

Our fees

Type of payment	Fee
Type of payment Payments in euro received from within the UK, EEA or by SEPA Credit Transfer	Fee No fee
Type of payment Receiving a payment up to and including £100	Fee £2*
Type of payment Receiving a payment of over £100	Fee £7*

*This fee won't apply to payments in pounds received from within the EU to our Basic Account.

We’ll convert the payment received into pounds on the day we pay it into your account. We use our standard exchange rate for money received from outside the UK or in a foreign currency.

Other fees

The bank overseas may use an agent bank to send your payment to us. The agent bank may take a fee from the payment amount which means Lloyds Bank receives a lower amount which we will then pay into your account.

Exchange rates expandable section

Payments are processed using our standard exchange rate and we’ll only change your payment into pounds when we receive it. Until then the exchange rate is indicative, for information only and can change at any time.

To get an indication of the exchange rate you may receive, you can give us a call or visit us in branch.

Our standard exchange rate includes a margin which you can see by using our margin calculator. The margin changes depending on how much you expect to receive.

The margin is the difference between our standard exchange rate and the wholesale rate at which we buy and sell currency in the foreign exchange markets.

If you hold a Mayfair Private Banking Service account, you may receive a different standard exchange rate and margin. Please contact your Private Bank Manager for more details.

Margin Calculator

I am expecting a payment of:

£

Payment margin:
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For example:

A person in the United States makes a payment of $1,000 to your account. If the current GBP/USD wholesale rate is 1.2600 , the Lloyds Bank standard exchange rate applied to the incoming payment would be 1.3047, based on our current margin of 3.55%.

In this example ,if we receive $1,000 this means you’ll receive £759.44 in your account after we charge our £7 fee.

Please note: We use a live wholesale rate to calculate the standard exchange rate. Together with the percentages outlined previously, the information is indicative, for information only and can change at any time.

If you’d like to see a table of our margins and how they change based on how much you expect to receive, tick the box below

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Standard Exchange Rate
Payment Value in GBP	Current margin for receiving money from outside the UK or in a foreign currency
Payment Value in GBP 0 - £10,000	Current margin for receiving money from outside the UK or in a foreign currency 3.55%
Payment Value in GBP £10,000 - £50,000	Current margin for receiving money from outside the UK or in a foreign currency 3.55% - 2.40%
Payment Value in GBP £50,000 - £100,000	Current margin for receiving money from outside the UK or in a foreign currency 2.40% - 2.10%
Payment Value in GBP £100,000 - £250,000	Current margin for receiving money from outside the UK or in a foreign currency 2.10% - 1.50%
Payment Value in GBP £250,000 and above	Current margin for receiving money from outside the UK or in a foreign currency 1.50%

Other fees may apply

Timescales expandable section

Timescales

Payments sent in euros from a bank within the EEA should be in your account by the end of the following working day.

We can't control when we'll receive payments not in euros or from outside of the EEA. This depends on when and how the sending bank sends the payment to us. When we do receive it, we'll convert it into pounds, take our fee and then pay the money into your account as soon as possible.
If you haven’t received an expected payment expandable section

Payment not received

Please contact the sender of the money and ask them to contact the bank sending the money as they can trace the payment.

If the sender’s bank asks you to contact us again, we will need them to provide the payment’s unique tracking reference (UETR) and/or the sender's reference to help us try and find the payment.
If you have a cheque in a foreign currency expandable section

Cheques in foreign currencies

If you want to pay in a foreign currency cheque, sign your name on the back of the cheque and call in to branch. We generally try to “negotiate” a cheque. If we can’t do that or you ask us, we can “collect” it.

We may not be able to accept cheques in all foreign currencies.

Negotiating or collecting a cheque - what's the difference?

Negotiating: We'll usually pay the money into your account by the sixth working day after we receive it. We’ll convert it into pounds using our standard exchange rate for this payment.

Collecting: We'll pay the money into your account when we receive payment from the paying bank. The time this takes can vary depending on the paying bank or its country. We send the cheque to them and we may use an agent to do this. When we receive payment, we’ll convert it into pounds using our standard exchange rate for this payment.

For more information

To get an indication of the exchange rate you may receive, you can give us a call or visit us in branch.

Calls may be monitored or recorded to help us improve our quality of service.

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