FSCS vs FDIC: The UK Equivalent of FDIC Insurance (2026)

Mohammad Humaid
Mohammad HumaidUpdated: Sep 15, 2026

If you have banked in America and then moved to Britain, one of the first questions that comes up is who plays the role of the FDIC here. The sticker on the door of a US bank is one of the most recognisable promises in retail finance, and Britain has nothing that looks like it.

It does have the same promise, under a different name and with a different shape. The FDIC equivalent in the UK is the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, and since 1 December 2025 it has covered 120,000 pounds per person per banking licence.

That is the headline. The detail is where people lose money, because the UK scheme counts protection per banking licence rather than per brand, and because a growing share of the money people hold is not in a bank at all.

This guide sets out what the FSCS covers, how the FSCS vs FDIC comparison actually works, and what protects the balance sitting in an app that is not a bank.

Hold Pounds and Dollars in One Account (Safeguarded, Not FSCS)

If you are moving between the US and the UK, the practical problem is holding both currencies without paying a bank to convert them. Here is what a Wise account does, and where it sits on protection.

  • Real UK and US account details: a sort code and account number for pounds, a routing number and account number for dollars, in one account.
  • Mid-market exchange rate: the rate you see on Google, with a stated fee instead of a margin buried in the rate.
  • Opens on a passport: no UK proof of address needed in many cases, which matters in your first month in the country.
  • Safeguarded, not FSCS covered: your money is held as cash at large banks and in government bonds, kept separate from Wise's own funds. That is a different protection from deposit insurance, and this guide explains the difference in full.
  • Best used as a working balance: for money moving between countries rather than as the place your savings live.

Is There an FDIC Equivalent in the UK?

Yes. The FDIC equivalent in the UK is the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, universally shortened to the FSCS. If a UK bank, building society or credit union fails, the FSCS pays eligible depositors back automatically, up to 120,000 pounds per person per banking licence, within seven working days. You do not file a claim for an ordinary deposit account.

What the FSCS Is, and Who Pays for It

The FSCS is the UK's statutory compensation scheme of last resort. It was set up under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and began operating in 2001, consolidating eight separate schemes that had covered different corners of financial services. It is independent of the government and of the regulators, and it is funded by a levy on authorised firms rather than by the taxpayer.

That funding model is the same idea behind the FDIC, which is financed by premiums paid by insured banks. In both countries the industry pays for the promise, which is why the promise survives a government that would rather not write a cheque.

The scheme covers more than deposits. It also handles investments, insurance, pensions and mortgage advice, each with its own limit. Deposit protection in the UK is only one of its jobs, though it is the one that behaves most like the FDIC.

What the Two Schemes Have in Common

Both are automatic for straightforward accounts, both are backed by law rather than by goodwill, and both exist to stop a bank run turning a solvency problem into a queue outside a branch. Neither covers investment losses, and neither protects you against a bad decision, only against the institution failing. That is the honest scope of the answer to the question people actually mean, which is, is your money safe in a UK bank at all.

Both also apply per institution rather than per account, which is the single most useful thing to understand about either. Opening a second account at the same bank buys you nothing. Opening an account at a different one buys you a whole second limit.

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The Bank Account Protection Limit in the UK in 2026

The bank account protection limit in the UK is 120,000 pounds per eligible person, per banking licence. It rose from 85,000 pounds on 1 December 2025, the first increase since 2017. A joint account gives each holder the full limit, so two people on one account are covered to 240,000 pounds between them.

What Changed on 1 December 2025

The 85,000 pound figure had been frozen for eight years while prices and house deposits moved a long way, so the increase to 120,000 pounds was a catch up rather than a policy shift. It applies to money held from that date onward, and it applies automatically. There is nothing to opt into and no form to complete.

The practical consequence is that a great deal of published advice is now wrong. Comparison sites, personal finance blogs and a surprising number of bank help pages still say 85,000 pounds. If you set up a savings split under the old limit, you are currently holding less per bank than you need to, which is a pleasant problem but still worth fixing.

Joint Accounts, and How the Limit Is Counted

Each eligible person gets 120,000 pounds at each banking licence. On a joint account the balance is treated as split equally between the holders, and each half counts against that person's own limit at that licence. So a couple holding 240,000 pounds jointly at one bank is fully covered, and the same couple holding 240,000 pounds jointly plus 100,000 pounds in one partner's sole account at the same bank is not.

This is where the counting gets people. Your sole accounts and your share of any joint account at the same licence are added together first, and the 120,000 pound limit is applied to the total. It is not 120,000 pounds for the joint account and another 120,000 pounds for your own.

Temporary High Balances, and the Six Month Clock

There is an exception for one-off large sums from defined life events: the proceeds of a house sale, an inheritance, a redundancy payment, an insurance or compensation settlement. Qualifying temporary high balances are protected up to 1.4 million pounds for six months from the date the money first arrives.

The exception exists because nobody can sensibly spread a completed house sale across a dozen banks on the afternoon it lands. Six months is the window to do something deliberate with it, and the protection falls back to the ordinary limit the day that window closes. If you are holding a large sum through a move, put the date in a calendar rather than trusting yourself to remember.

Moving Money Between Countries While You Decide

A temporary high balance often shows up right when someone is moving countries, and the money has to cross a currency before it can be put to work. That crossing is where most of the cost hides.

  • Mid-market rate: Wise converts at the rate on Google with an upfront fee, rather than a margin folded into the rate.
  • Both sets of account details: hold pounds and dollars in the same account and convert only when you choose to.
  • Large transfer pricing: the percentage fee falls as the amount rises, which matters on a six figure sum.
  • Clear on protection: Wise safeguards rather than carrying FSCS deposit cover, and says so on its own help pages.

FSCS vs FDIC: The Differences That Actually Matter

On FSCS vs FDIC the headline limits are 120,000 pounds against 250,000 dollars, which at recent rates is roughly 162,000 dollars against 250,000 dollars. The bigger difference is structural: the FDIC counts per ownership category, which lets one person hold several insured pots at one bank, while the FSCS counts per person per licence and does not slice by account type.

Per Licence Against Per Ownership Category

The FDIC insures deposits up to 250,000 dollars per depositor, per insured bank, for each account ownership category. Single accounts, joint accounts, certain retirement accounts and trust accounts are separate categories, and each carries its own limit at the same bank. A married couple can hold well over a million dollars at one American bank and have every cent insured by using the categories properly.

The FSCS has no equivalent structure. Your current account, savings account, cash ISA and fixed term bond at one licence are added together and covered once to 120,000 pounds. The only lever you have is to use a different licence, which is why UK savers who care about this end up with accounts at four or five institutions rather than four or five products at one.

How Fast Each Scheme Pays

The FSCS pays compensation within seven working days of a failure, automatically, with no claim form for straightforward deposit accounts. The FDIC is usually quicker on a standard failure, often restoring access by the next business day, because the typical American resolution is a healthy bank assuming the deposits over a weekend and reopening the branches on Monday.

Seven working days is not long, but it is long enough to miss a mortgage payment or a payroll run. The sensible response is not to distrust the scheme, it is to keep a modest buffer at a second licence so that a failure is an inconvenience rather than a crisis.

What Neither Scheme Covers

Neither protects the value of an investment. Stocks, bonds, funds and crypto assets are not deposits, and a fall in their price is not a failure of anything. The FDIC insures checking accounts, savings accounts, money market deposit accounts, certificates of deposit and certain prepaid cards, and nothing beyond that.

The FSCS does cover investments, but under a separate heading and a separate limit of 85,000 pounds, and only where a regulated firm has failed owing you money. That is protection against the firm collapsing, not against the market moving. Confusing the two is the most common misreading of both schemes.

The Licence Trap That Costs People Their Protection

The FSCS limit applies per banking licence, not per brand. Several well known UK names share a single licence with a sibling brand, so money split between the two is treated as money at one bank. Splitting 200,000 pounds across a pair that shares a licence leaves 80,000 pounds uncovered, which is precisely the outcome the split was meant to avoid.

Why a Brand Is Not a Bank

British banking groups have spent decades buying each other, and the brands usually survive the purchase because customers are attached to them. What does not always survive is the separate authorisation underneath. A group can run two high street names, two websites and two apps on one PRA licence, and from the FSCS point of view that is one bank.

Nothing on the shopfront tells you this. The two brands will have different logos, different sort codes and different customer service numbers, and they will still share a limit. It is not a trick, and both firms disclose it, but it is disclosed in the place nobody reads.

How to Check Which Licence Your Money Sits Under

The FSCS publishes a checker for exactly this, and it is the only source worth trusting, because groups reorganise and third party lists go stale within months. Enter the brand, and it returns the authorised firm behind it and the other brands sharing that authorisation. The Bank of England also publishes which firms the PRA regulates, which is the underlying register the checker draws on.

Do this before you spread money rather than after. It takes about a minute per brand, and it is the difference between a split that works and a split that only looks like one. If you are opening accounts as part of a move, it is worth doing at the same time as you work through what you need to open a UK bank account, because the two jobs use the same afternoon.

If you are moving money between banks to get under the limit, the Current Account Switch Service moves a whole current account in seven working days, though a partial move of savings is usually simpler and does not close anything.

The Two Brand Split That Protects Nothing

The most expensive mistake in deposit protection in the UK is not going over the limit by accident. It is going over the limit on purpose, by splitting money between two brands that turn out to sit on one banking licence. The split feels like diligence and does nothing at all.

Check the brand rather than the bank you think owns it, and check it on the FSCS checker rather than on a list someone compiled two years ago. Ownership changes, licences get merged, and a pair that was safely separate when you opened the accounts may not be separate now.

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Does FDIC Insurance Apply to a UK Account?

No. FDIC insurance in the UK does not exist, because the FDIC insures deposits only at banks it has insured in the United States. What decides which scheme covers you is where the bank is authorised, not what currency you hold or what passport you carry. A UK authorised bank means FSCS, a US insured bank means FDIC.

A Dollar Account at a UK Bank Is FSCS, Not FDIC

This surprises people more than it should. If you hold a USD account with a UK bank, the money is a deposit with a firm authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority, so FSCS protection applies and the FDIC has nothing to do with it. The dollars do not travel to America because they are dollars.

The same logic runs through every foreign currency account offered on the high street. An HSBC USD account in the UK is a UK deposit denominated in dollars. Where a currency balance sits outside a bank entirely, as it does with most multi-currency apps, neither scheme applies and the protection is safeguarding instead, which the next section covers.

A Dollar Account at a US Bank Is FDIC, Not FSCS

If you kept an account open in the States when you moved, that account is insured by the FDIC to 250,000 dollars per ownership category and is entirely outside the FSCS. Being resident in Britain does not change it, and neither does the account being dormant. If you are trying to open one from this side, the constraints are set out in our guide to opening a US bank account from overseas.

What That Means If You Bank on Both Sides

It means you have two separate limits rather than one shared one, which is a genuine advantage of keeping a foot in both countries. It also means two sets of rules, two payout timetables, and two sets of paperwork if anything ever goes wrong. Neither scheme will help you with a problem at the other's institution, and asking about FDIC insurance in the UK will get you pointed back to the FSCS every time.

The other thing it means is that moving money between those two protected pots costs something, and the cost is almost never the transfer fee. Our guide to the best UK banks for international transfers prices the high street on this, and the short version is that the exchange rate is where the money goes.

Money That Is Not in a Bank: Safeguarding Explained

A large share of the money people now hold sits with electronic money institutions rather than banks, and the FSCS states plainly that it cannot protect e-money or payment services firms. Those firms are not uninsured in the loose sense, they are protected by a different mechanism called safeguarding, which has no cap but also no compensation scheme behind it.

What an E-Money Institution Does With Your Money

A bank takes your deposit, lends most of it out, and keeps a fraction in reserve. That is the business, and it is why deposit insurance has to exist: the money is not sitting in a vault waiting for you. An authorised electronic money institution is forbidden from doing this. It must keep customer money separate from its own and hold it in defined ways, which is what the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 require.

Because the money is never lent out and never mixed with company funds, it does not form part of the estate if the firm fails. An administrator is required to return safeguarded funds to customers ahead of the firm's own creditors. There is no 120,000 pound ceiling on that, because it is not compensation, it is your own money being handed back.

Where Wise Holds It, Named

Wise Payments Ltd is an authorised electronic money institution regulated by the FCA under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011. It publishes what it does with customer money, which is rare enough to be worth reading. The money is held as cash at large banks, invested in secure liquid assets that are mainly government bonds, and covered in part by comparable guarantees from authorised insurers.

The banks it names are Barclays, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Hamburg Commercial Bank and Bank of America. The reason for spreading it and for holding a significant share in government bonds is stated openly: a government defaulting is rarer than a bank failing, so bonds reduce the risk of the safeguarding pot itself being caught in someone else's collapse.

Why Safeguarding Has No Cap and No Seven Day Promise

The trade is straightforward once you see it. FSCS protection gives you a hard ceiling of 120,000 pounds and a hard promise of payment within seven working days. Safeguarding gives you no ceiling at all, because every pound is legally yours, but no promised timetable, because returning the money is an administration process rather than an automatic payout.

For a working balance that moves every month, the absence of a ceiling is worth more than the speed. For the money you would need on Monday if everything went wrong on Friday, the seven day promise is worth more. Most people who bank across two countries end up using both, deliberately, for different money.

What a Wise Balance Is, and What It Is Not

Read this before you decide where a currency balance lives, because the protection is genuinely different from a bank account and it is worth choosing with open eyes.

  • Not a bank: Wise Payments Ltd is an authorised electronic money institution, not a deposit taker, and it does not lend your money out.
  • Not FSCS covered: e-money balances fall outside FSCS deposit protection, and both Wise and the FSCS say so directly.
  • Safeguarded instead: held as cash at named major banks and in mainly government bonds, separate from Wise's own money.
  • No upper limit: safeguarding applies to the whole balance rather than to the first 120,000 pounds of it.
  • Best for money in motion: currency you are holding, spending or about to send, rather than a long term savings pot.

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Wise is the account most people in this situation actually end up holding, so it is worth being specific about where it sits. In the UK the balance is safeguarded under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 and is not FSCS covered. In the US, a dollar balance can carry FDIC pass-through insurance, but only if you have opted into the interest feature.

The UK Position, in Wise's Own Words

Wise Payments Ltd states that the e-money and payment services it provides are not subject to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, because it is not a bank. It holds customer funds as cash with major banks and in secure liquid assets, mainly government bonds, plus comparable guarantees from authorised insurers.

There is one FSCS covered corner: the Assets feature, where a balance is invested rather than held, carries FSCS investment protection up to 85,000 pounds. That is the investment limit rather than the deposit limit, and it applies to the invested portion only. If you use Assets, that distinction is worth understanding before you decide how much to put there.

The US Position, and the Opt In That Changes It

Wise US Inc. holds customer money as cash at JPMorgan Chase Bank and in secure liquid assets. By default that money is not FDIC insured. If you opt into the interest feature, your dollars are swept into an FDIC insured interest bearing account at a program bank, and you are then eligible for up to 250,000 dollars in FDIC pass-through insurance on that USD balance.

That is a real asymmetry and almost nobody reports it accurately. A US customer who opts in has FDIC pass-through on dollars. A UK customer holding the same dollars in the same app has safeguarding and no FSCS cover. Same product, different entity, different protection, and the difference is the entity you signed up with.

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What the Account Is Genuinely Good At

Holding several currencies with real local account details in each, converting at the mid-market exchange rate with a stated fee, and moving money between countries without a wire charge at each end. On a transfer of 5,000 pounds to dollars the fee is around 19 pounds, against a typical high street conversion charge of about 2.2 percent, which is 110 pounds on the same amount.

That gap is why the account exists and why it is worth holding even if your savings stay in a bank. The full picture, including where it is weaker, is in our Wise review.

Two Sets of Local Account Details, One Balance

If the reason you are reading about deposit protection is that you are moving between the US and the UK, this is the practical piece that sits alongside your bank accounts rather than replacing them.

  • UK sort code and account number: so pounds arrive as a domestic payment rather than an international one.
  • US routing and account number: so dollars do the same on the other side.
  • Convert when you choose: hold both currencies and move between them at the mid-market rate.
  • One fee, stated upfront: instead of a conversion charge folded into the exchange rate.
  • Keep your savings where they are protected: use this for money in motion and leave long term balances under a banking licence.

What Wise Cannot Offer You Here

It cannot give you deposit insurance, and no amount of safeguarding is the same thing. If what you are actually asking is, is your money safe in a UK bank, because you are choosing where your savings should live, a Wise balance is not the answer to that question, and it is better to say so than to blur it.

No FSCS Deposit Cover, No Compensation Timetable

Safeguarding protects the money from being lost in an insolvency. It does not promise you a date. An administration takes as long as it takes, and while safeguarded funds rank ahead of ordinary creditors, the process of identifying and returning them is not a seven day automatic payout. That is the practical gap, and it matters for money you might need at short notice.

It is also worth saying that no UK electronic money institution has failed in a way that tested this at scale. The mechanism is sound on paper and largely untested in anger, which is a different statement from saying it has been proven.

What to Do With Money You Cannot Afford to Have Tied Up

Keep it under a banking licence, spread so that no single licence holds more than 120,000 pounds of yours. That is the whole strategy, and it is unglamorous on purpose. Use a currency account for the money that is moving, and a bank for the money that is sitting.

If most of your balance is sitting rather than moving and you want it in dollars, a dollar account at a UK bank keeps it inside FSCS protection, at the cost of a worse exchange rate when you convert. That is a real trade with a real price on both sides, and which way it falls depends on how often you convert.

How to Structure Your Money Across Both Countries

Keep long term balances under banking licences, no more than 120,000 pounds per licence in the UK and 250,000 dollars per ownership category in the US. Hold the money that moves in a multi-currency account, and convert deliberately rather than letting a bank do it for you at its own rate.

Get Under the Limit at Each Licence First

Before anything clever, work out how much money is protected in a UK bank in your own case, by counting what you hold at each licence and checking the pairs on the FSCS checker. Most people discover one of two things: either they are comfortably under everywhere and need do nothing, or they have quietly drifted over at their main bank because that is where the salary lands.

If you are over, the fix is a second institution rather than a second product. Opening one is a short job, and our ranking of the best banks in the UK is a reasonable place to start if you do not already have a candidate.

See What a Cross-Border Move Actually Costs

Most of the cost of splitting money across two countries is the currency conversion, not the transfer fee, and the two are usually quoted separately so that only one of them looks like a price. Put a real amount and a real pair of currencies into the comparison below and you will see what each route takes out before the money lands.

Treat the Currency Account as a Working Balance

The point of a multi-currency account is that it removes the forced conversion at the moment money moves. Your dollars arrive as dollars, sit as dollars, and become pounds when you decide they should. That is worth real money if you are paid in one currency and spend in another, and it does not require you to move your savings anywhere.

Keep the balance sized to what it is for: a month or two of spending, an incoming payment waiting to be converted, the float for a trip. Anything beyond that is savings, and savings belong somewhere with a compensation scheme behind them. If you are receiving regular payments from abroad, our guide to receiving money from abroad covers how to have them arrive as a local payment rather than a wire.

The Bottom Line

The FDIC equivalent in the UK is the FSCS, and since December 2025 it covers 120,000 pounds per person per banking licence, paid automatically within seven working days. That is the number to plan around, and the licence rather than the brand is the unit that matters.

The Three Things Worth Doing Today

Check the FSCS limit you are actually working with, because a lot of published advice still says 85,000 pounds. Check which licences your accounts sit under, because two familiar brands can be one bank. And decide, on purpose, which of your money is sitting and which is moving, because the right protection is different for each. Do those three things and the question, is your money safe in a UK bank, has a specific answer rather than a vague one.

If you hold money on both sides of the Atlantic, you have two separate schemes and two separate limits rather than a gap. The gap, when there is one, is usually in the middle: the balance in an app that is neither, where safeguarding applies instead and the rules are worth knowing before you need them.

Where the Money Actually Leaks

Not in the protection, in the conversion. Deposit protection in the UK is a question people ask once and then stop thinking about, while the exchange rate margin is charged every single time money crosses. Our guide to international wire transfer fees puts numbers on that, and it is a larger sum over a year than almost anyone expects.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the FDIC equivalent in the UK?

The FDIC equivalent in the UK is the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, almost always shortened to the FSCS. It does the same job the FDIC does in America: if a bank, building society or credit union fails, it pays depositors back automatically rather than making them queue as creditors. The scheme is funded by a levy on the industry, not by the taxpayer, and it has been running since 2001. The one structural difference worth knowing is that the FSCS limit applies per banking licence rather than per brand, which is where most people who lose protection lose it.

What is the bank account protection limit in the UK in 2026?

The bank account protection limit in the UK is 120,000 pounds per eligible person, per banking licence. That figure took effect on 1 December 2025, raised from the 85,000 pounds that had applied since 2017. A joint account gives each holder their own 120,000 pounds, so a couple is covered to 240,000 pounds on the same account. Most comparison pages and even some bank pages have not been updated and still quote 85,000, so check the date on anything you read.

Is my money safe in a UK bank?

Money in a UK bank is safe up to 120,000 pounds per person per banking licence, paid automatically within seven working days if the bank fails. Above that line it is not protected, and the honest answer to whether your money is safe in a UK bank depends entirely on how much of it sits under one licence. The scheme has not had to handle a large failure since the limit rose, but it has done the job before, including on Icesave in 2008, when UK depositors got their money back. The risk to manage is concentration, not the scheme.

How much money is protected in a UK bank if I have several accounts there?

How much money is protected in a UK bank does not change because you hold several accounts there. The 120,000 pound limit is per person per licence, so a current account, a savings account and an ISA at the same bank are added together and covered once. The same is true across brands that share a licence, which is the part people get wrong. If you want a second 120,000 pounds, you need a bank on a different licence, not a different product at the same one.

Does FDIC insurance apply to a UK account?

No. FDIC insurance in the UK does not exist, because the FDIC only insures deposits at banks it has insured in the United States. A dollar account at a UK bank sits with a firm authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority, so it falls under FSCS protection, not the FDIC. The currency of the balance makes no difference to which scheme applies. What decides it is where the bank is authorised, so a US bank means FDIC and a UK bank means FSCS, whatever currency you hold.

What is the difference between FSCS and FDIC limits?

On FSCS vs FDIC the headline numbers are close, 120,000 pounds against 250,000 dollars, which at recent rates is roughly 162,000 dollars against 250,000 dollars. The structure differs more than the number. The FDIC counts per depositor, per insured bank, per ownership category, so a single person can hold several separately insured pots at one bank by using different categories. The FSCS counts per person per banking licence and does not slice by account type at all.

Is money held with Wise or another e-money firm covered by the FSCS?

No. The FSCS states plainly that it cannot protect e-money or payment services firms, and Wise says the same on its own help pages. Instead, Wise Payments Ltd safeguards customer money under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011, holding it as cash at large banks and in liquid assets that are mainly government bonds. Safeguarded money is legally yours rather than the firm's, so it is not part of the estate if the firm fails, but there is no compensation scheme paying you in seven days.

What is a temporary high balance and how long does it last?

A temporary high balance is a one-off large sum from a defined life event, such as a house sale, an inheritance, redundancy pay or an insurance settlement. The FSCS protects qualifying temporary high balances up to 1.4 million pounds for six months from the date the money first lands. It exists because nobody can reasonably spread a house sale across ten banks the afternoon it completes. After six months the ordinary bank account protection limit in the UK applies again, so the clock matters.

Which UK banking brands share a licence?

Several of the best known ones do, and the FSCS treats brands under a single licence as one bank. The scheme's own checker is the only reliable way to confirm a pair, because groups reorganise and published lists go stale. The practical rule is to check before you spread money rather than after, because splitting 200,000 pounds between two brands that turn out to share a licence leaves 80,000 pounds uncovered instead of nothing.

How quickly does each scheme pay out?

The FSCS pays compensation automatically within seven working days of a bank, building society or credit union failing, with no claim to submit for straightforward deposit accounts. The FDIC is typically faster still on a standard failure, often restoring access by the next business day, usually because a healthy bank has taken over the deposits over a weekend. On deposit protection in the UK the seven working day standard is the one to plan around, which is a reason to keep a small buffer somewhere else.

Sources

Every figure in this guide comes from the scheme, regulator or firm that published it. Checked in September 2026.

About the Author
Mohammad Humaid

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Mo is the founder of MoneyTransferStore. As an expat who has experienced the challenges of sending money across borders himself, he set out to help others like him avoid hidden fees and unfair exchange rates on international transfers. With a background spanning fintech, payments, and Web3, Mo brings years of practical experience to building a platform focused on transparency and trust.