With Wise, you can send British pounds (GBP) to bank accounts in countries outside of the UK. You can also now send GBP to bank accounts in the UK that Wise otherwise can’t support. These are bank accounts that don’t accept CHAPS or Faster Payments.
As long as the receiving bank account is denominated in GBP, the receiving account details can be in both IBAN and account number formats, and you can send GBP there.
How it works
We send GBP to bank accounts outside of the UK using the Swift payment network. It’s different than a regular Wise transfer, so it’ll take a bit longer to reach the recipient.
Set up your transfer on Wise. You’ll need to add a new recipient to get started.
Add the IBAN or account number of the recipient’s bank account.
Pay for your transfer. We’ll then send the GBP to your recipient as usual.
How much it costs
Your fee: It costs us extra to send money by Swift, so we’ll add that amount to the regular Wise fee.
For the most up to date information on your fees, please see the Terms of Use for your region.
Your recipient’s fee: Your recipient’s bank may charge fees to receive payments sent with Swift. Also, the recipient might be charged by any banks that handle the money along the way. We don’t have control over when these fees are charged, or how much they cost.
Where you can send GBP
You can send GBP to all SEPA countries, as well as to:
Aland Islands, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Azerbaijan
Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso
Cabo Verde, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire
Dominica, Dominican Republic
Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia
Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia
Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana
Haiti, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Holy See, Honduras, Hong Kong
India, Indonesia, Isle of Man, Israel
Jamaica, Japan, Jersey
Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan
Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia
Macao, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique
Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Macedonia, Northern Mariana Islands
Oman
Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico
Qatar
Reunion, Rwanda
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu
Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States Minor Outlying Islands, United States of America, Uruguay, Uzbekistan
Vanuatu, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (US)
Wallis and Futuna
Zambia
What about FFC payments?
We can’t send For Further Credit (FFC) payments. FFC is a payment made to a beneficiary that is not final. This means you can't send money to a recipient who will then forward the money somewhere else. These transactions require a separate field for entering the actual final recipient, and we do not have that option.
Restrictions when sending from INR
You can send from INR to AED, AUD, BDT, BGN, CAD, CHF, CLP, CZK, DKK, EUR, GBP, GEL, HUF, IDR, MYR, NOK, NZD, PHP, PLN, RON, SEK, SGD, TRY, and domestic USD. Additionally, the recipient’s address must be in one of the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, UAE, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Restrictions when sending from BRL
You can send money to most currencies we work with. Although, due to the way we're regulated, you can't send to Albania, Barbados, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, North Korea, Ghana, Iran, Jamaica, Mauritius, Morocco, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Senegal, Syria, Uganda, Yemen, or Zimbabwe.