In other words, have your bank convert to that country's currency before sending a wire there. My story on this is that I recently won an auction for a wristwatch that took place in Switzerland and the winning bid was CHF115,000. The auction house proceed...
On April 7th 2022 the site Music Business Worldwide had an article and how bad the unneeded losses are due to different currencies. Look up 'With touring costs spiraling.' Of course crypto solves a lot of this, including delays from send to receive. So ye...
Of course, the best cards to this purpose are those carrying no foreign transactions fees (FTFs). I have a pretty good "collection" of credit cards, and all three of Visa, Amex and Mastercard have a reasonable (and essentially comparable, I would say with...
I follow this market closely in the US (and I opened 16 new major, no-fee credit cards in the last 2.5 years alone, while keeping a 800+ credit score...if I do something I like to do it well! ;-)) However, I'd never open a card (or even a bank account!!) ...
And as pointed out in an earlier comment, even better not to let your bank to do the conversion either (if an option, and deemed worth the effort). If you can access the FX markets directly, you can trade/convert at minimal bid-ask spreads and at effectiv...