International Payments

If you have a current account with us and you’re registered for Internet Banking, you can log on to send money abroad.

You’ll need to have the following information to hand:

• the recipient's name and address (exact full name or company name)
• the recipient's IBAN (International Bank Account Number) or account number
• the name and address of recipient's bank - including the BIC (Banking Identifier Code) / SWIFT code / clearing code

Our transfer charges for sending an International Payment online are:

• £10 for payments less than £5,000
• £17.50 for payments of £5,000 or more

These charges don’t include any charges made by the recipient's bank.

You can see how much a payment will cost by using our International Payments calculator once you’ve logged in. The figures you see are based on the currency exchange rate when the calculation is made and will only be valid for 10 minutes.

Use the table to see the maximum time your payment will take to reach the recipient's bank once we have received your instruction.

The cut-off time for Online International Payments is 3pm for all currencies. We’ll process any Online International Payments requested after this time the next working day.

* subject to the beneficiary bank applying funds to the beneficiary account on the day the payment is received from us.

Our agreement with you is made up of the general conditions (contained in the ‘Your Banking Relationship with Us’ Personal Banking terms and conditions leaflet) and additional conditions. These additional conditions include the conditions below, information in the International Payments leaflet, and other information we tell you when you ask us to make the payment. If there is any overlap or conflict between the additional conditions and the Personal Banking terms and conditions, the additional conditions apply.
The international payments service allows you to make an electronic payment via our online, branch or telephone channels from an account you hold with us to a person (‘recipient’) either outside the UK or in a currency other than sterling within the UK. It is provided by Lloyds TSB Bank plc or Lloyds TSB Scotland plc, whichever holds your account.

1. Making an international payment.

1.1 We must receive your payment instruction before the cut-off time on a working day so that we can start processing it the same day. The cut-off time for international payments is 2pm for euros and 3pm for all other currencies if you make your payment via branch or telephone. If you make your international payment online the cut-off time for all currencies is 3pm.

1.2 Provided we receive your payment instruction before the cut-off time on a working day, we will take the money from your account the same day. If the  recipient’s account is in the EEA, the timescales for payments set out in the Personal Banking terms and conditions leaflet will apply. If the recipient’s account is outside the EEA, you can ask us for details about how long the payment will take to arrive. By ‘EEA’ we mean the European Economic Area (this includes members of the European Union plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein).

1.3 By ‘working day’ we mean any day on which a particular bank is open for business as required for the processing of an international payment. Our working days are Monday to Friday (other than English bank holidays)but foreign banks may have different working days, for example because they observe local bank holidays.

1.4 There must be sufficient funds in your account for us to process your payment instruction. If, when we try to process your payment, there are insufficient funds in your account, you acknowledge that:

• we may make a charge for cancelling the payment. We will tell you the amount of our charges for this service at the time

• we may also make a charge for any loss in foreign exchange that we make as a result of trying to send the payment on your behalf.

1.5 When you give us a payment instruction you must give us the full name and address of the recipient, and the name and address of their bank; and

1.5.1 if you are making a payment in euro or any other EEA currency to a bank account in the EEA, Switzerland or Monaco you must give us the International Bank Account Number (IBAN) and Bank Identifier Code (BIC) for the recipient’s account. By ‘EEA currency’ we mean the euro or any official currency of an EEA country; or
1.5.2 if you are making any other payment you must give us the recipient’s account number and any other details we ask you for so we can make the payment.

1.6 You may not be able to cancel or change your payment instruction once you have given it to us because we start processing it when we receive it. If you ask us to cancel a payment instruction that is already being processed or if we’re unable to process the payment due to incorrect recipient details, you acknowledge that:

1.6.1 if the payment has been credited into the recipient’s account, we can only recall the payment (or any part of it) with the agreement of the recipient’s bank and the recipient.
1.6.2 we may make a charge for trying to cancel or change the payment, whether or not we succeed. We will tell you the amount of our charges for this service at the time you request it.
1.6.3 if you asked for the original payment to be sent in a foreign currency, we will convert it into sterling at the applicable exchange rate before we pay it back into your account. The exchange rate we use to do that may be different from the exchange rate applied to the original payment and so the amount paid back into your account may be less than the amount originally taken.

2. Exchange rates.

2.1 If you ask us to send the payment in a currency other than sterling we’ll use our standard exchange rate on the day of the payment and we’ll tell you or display online the exchange rate that will apply. To establish the current exchange rate before sending your international payment via our branch or telephone channel call us on 0845 3 000 000 or visit us in branch. If the payment is in a currency which differs from the currency of the recipient’s account, we cannot control any exchange rate applied by the recipient’s bank or any agent bank.

3. Charges.

3.1 If you ask us to make the payment in euro or any other EEA currency to a bank account in the EEA, Switzerland or Monaco you will pay our charges (including the charges of any agent bank we use) and the recipient will pay their bank’s charges.

3.2 If you are requesting any other international payment to be sent via branch or by telephone you may opt:

3.2.1 to pay all charges, where you also agree to pay the charges of the recipient’s bank and any agent banks we use, instead
of the recipient. We may not be able to tell you in advance what an agent or recipient bank will charge; or
3.2.2 for charges to be shared, where you agree to pay our charges and the recipient pays their bank’s charges, and, if we use an agent bank when sending the payment, their charge (if any) is deducted from the payment before it reaches the recipient’s bank. We will not always be able to tell you in advance what the recipient’s bank or any agent bank will charge.
3.2.3 When an international payment is sent online all charges will be shared as per condition 3.2.2 above, there is no option for you to pay all the charges.

3.3 Our charges that apply to international payments are:

3.4 We will take our charges for dealing with your international payment, and, where appropriate, any charges by the recipient’s bank and any agent bank(unless the payment falls within condition 3.2.2 above, and the agent bank’s charge is deducted from the payment) from your account.

4. Statements and information.

4.1 The payment transaction details, including the sterling equivalent of the payment, the charges which apply and any breakdown of these and the exchange rate applied will be confirmed to you immediately before the payment has left your account and will be shown on the statement for your account.
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