Unreal. I also had an email and message from them yesterday saying now I'm living overseas I need to update my residential status, can no longer use my UK advisor and would have to call them to discuss options. I'm pretty pissed off as I could have looked at all this back in the UK. And yes so much for 'world banking'... 😎
I already use Wise for transfers but it was more the convenience of being able to speak to a person in country rather than having to call the UK to sort out any issues eg locked out of account etc through a linked expat account with my existing account. Given the shocking way HSBC have advised me I'd love to bin them completely although that would be a lot of hassle...
Wow. And yet they were telling me to pop in to branch 4 weeks before I depart to open an account up until June this year before telling me in July to open it on arrival...
Not sure that's correct. Certainly the woman interviewed on the Thaiger wasn't part of that group, she just happened to sit next to/near a guy in a family group that tested positive.