@Biff ******

Do you mean they would give it back when they would decide negative? Money was taken before processing documents.

@Edward ****

There is a big difference between Revolut and Wise, Revolut is in many countries a bank withbank license from centrale bank, and Wise is not a bank in any country.

@Trystan ******

That not everybody is questioned, does not mean nobody is questioned, and with the heavy abuse of DTV you can predict more checks.

@Charles *********

I see more and more reports of questioning at the airport.

@David *******

Be prepared Airbnb does not always mean electricity, internet and water is included.

Especially electricity is often not included because the way you use airco can influence cost very much.

@Edward ****

Since Wise is not a bank they can reject if they are strict.

@Thomas ******

Revolut has a full bank license in some countries,

Wise just is not a bank.

If you trust them with large amounts of money is a different case, and I would not consider 500K THB as a large amount of money anyway.

@Nick ******

They ask for a bank account, when they accept Wise, they can accept any company or private person where you can park money that is accessible immediately.

@Expat *********

Revolut is not a bank in all countries they operate, but has a number of bank licences.

@Ivan ***********

I think that is not the point, Wise is not a bank and that means you have to do research to decide about risks, it does not have a license as a bank issued by a national bank, so without doing research you cannot say anything about reliability. If you accept Wise, you should accept any company that keeps money on an account.

I do not say Wise is not OK, I use it myself very often, but there is no independent criterium to check reliability of Wise.