What are the implications of recent changes in Wise to Bangkok Bank transfers for NON-O retirement extension?

I managed this processs allbeit about 6 years ago when I transitioned from Bangkok Bank (joint account) with my wife , to two individual accounts with SCB - come renewal time of our respective retirement visas I provided letters and statements from both banks which dovetailed and immig in Phuket were happy with it.No logical reason why they shouldn’t accept it other than an officer on a bad hair day but who knows……

And when transferring to Bangkok bank from Wise They always use kbank as an intermediary bank, Have done for the last four years since I joined them

Well, if this is true, it might create some turbulence in the "chain of custody/tagging" process, but it's good news in the "transfer convenience/competitiveness" department.

Thanks for the info.

Bangkok Bank is definitely going through a rough patch right now.

Their "stolid silence" approach to information sharing creates an impression that they are purposely lacking transparency and candor about their status, communications, and processes.

Given the cultural differences and their large number of western customers, it's not clear to me if this is intentional or just an unfortunate misunderstanding of western expectations of behavior of banks and financial institutions.

They really should consider hiring a western crisis/reputation management firm to help them improve their image and avoid mistakes that unnecessarily cause customer mistrust and triggering.

Can we please stop beating this to death. If the transfer is showing up with a weird coding you have a couple of choices you can get the FET, or simply prove the transfer from your international Bank to the local bank the same amount the same day the same time, most immigration officers will accept that the money came from abroad if you can supply a paper trail.

Same here except the dropdown menu for "Funds for Thailand" was still there but it still was not coded that way.

Can someone advise on changing bank accounts and transferring the 800k and if this interruption in banks will bring about a 32 teeth suck from immigration. For instance, I am into month five on current one year extension and want to transfer monies to K-bank from BB bank. I would assume that a safe way would be to transfer the day of my next successful year extension. Just thinking for now.

Well, I only looked at it now, and indeed in the app it says 'DEP TRF FR E-CH'. I also have the 'browser link' and also there it's different as you see on my picture 🤷‍♂️.

Also a strang thing happened with me last 28th of august. Had no problems for the last 7 years and this time a message from Wise came back:

'The name we had for your recipient THB account appears to be wrong. Because of that, your money was sent back to us.

Tried again but same result. To make a long story short: I removed the recipent (which was the bank account from the Bangkok bank of myself) and added it again with my name without last name. Then it went through very quick indeed as if I had chosen 'other' as a reason.

It seems, with all the 'Bangkok bank troubles' I read, that they are working/changing their software/interfaces.

Lets see what happens next month.

I have been down this road many times and ppreviously i just took my bkk bankbook to a kbank international desk and pull ecerything up. Even if yoir not renewing yet you can go check it out. Now i just use kbank for wise so much less hassle

Maybe one option could be to bring bank book/statement along with a statement from WISE to immigration to confirm it's international.