USD from Yuh to IB

Investing / Funding & Currency conversions
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Hi everyone

I plan to sell my ETF‘s and Stocks at Yuh (~20k USD) and invest them in VT at Interactive Brokers. I already have an IB account with ~20k USD invested, done by transfering CHF to IB and then converted to USD.
I now realized that transferring USD with the swiss IBAN of IB is not possible.

Options:

  • Convert the USD to CHF at 0.95% and transfer the CHF for to IB for free
  • Transfer the USD to IB in the USA (Interactive Brokers LLC, One Pickwick Plaza, …) with potentially even higher fees?
  • Any other ideas?

What would be the best way to transfer 20k USD from Yuh to IB?

Thanks a lot for your help!

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I doubt you’ll pay more than 20-30 USD. So that’s way better than the other option.

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Transfer the shares themselves to IB instead of converting to cash?
How much do they charge per position?

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Just realized, Yuh only accepts SEPA countries for international transactions. Means, I first would need to transfer the USD with swiss IBAN to another account (f.e. Swissquote, Raiffeisen)…

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According to their terms that‘s unfortunately not possible, as they only have fractional shares.

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Or PostFinance. If you have a ‘smart’ package that costs 5 CHF per month, you can get a IBAN for USD for no additional cost.

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Or to a (very trustworthy) friend with a usd account…

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I could imagine it’s possible - with Citibank converting at their rate.

Does Yuh support bank transfers to non-IBAN countries? :clown_face:

EDIT: whoops, you beat me to it and found out yourself.

Best or cheapest?

What about Revolut? They provide an IBAN for their USD account.

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Can you send USD from Revolut to IB ?

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btw, anyone knows how much would the cost be to send USD from post fiannce to IB?

Thank you!

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Haven’t tried yet but 12 CHF is what I See mentioned in this Forum
Transferring USD to IB - #3 by ChickenFat?

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Wise is integrated to IBKR, so you could:

  • send the USD to Wise, which is a UK IBAN. you will get charged 4.90 CHF from yuh and 3.52 USD from Wise
  • then select the transfer from Wise option from IBKR (not sure about how much the charges are for a plain USD transfer without FX)
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I tried this approach (Yuh → Wise → Interactive Brokers) today so I can give the total fee summary.

  • send USD to Wise’s UK IBAN. Yuh charged 4 CHF (4.44 USD), Wise charges 3.52 USD, the amount arrived at Wise is 25 USD less than what was sent
  • then select the transfer from Wise option from IBKR, Wise charges 0.39 USD for this funding

Sum: 32.91 to fund USD a balance at IBKR from a Yuh USD account, no FX conversion needed.

IBKR Interactive Brokers (swisskash.blogspot.com)

It would be better if Yuh could allow a direct (Swift ?) transfer to IBKR. I requested that feature but I don’t know if this will come.

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Probably depends on how much. For bigger amounts (> 10’000) it will probably be around 20-30 CHF in Swift fees.