wrote on Feb 8^th, 2012 at 8:49pm:

Hi All. I am moving a sum of money to my bank (La Caixa) from abroad, they say this will cost me a commission/landing fee of 0.04% which is a significant amount. Does anybody know if this is normal practice?

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I transfer money using Foreign Currency Direct. There is no charge at either end (I also bank at La Caixa)
I have one of the directors whom I always deal with - Daniel Wright- and I cannot fault their service or exchange rates.
I have used them over many years to transfer large sums of money (well large to me anyway) to 3 different countries and have never had any problems. www.currencies.co.uk