Hi everyone....l'm hoping that someone can help with a small prob regarding shifting some money to the US,which hopefully,several of you will have done before.
I'm expecting to have several thousand pounds from a pension fund paid out shortly (from Canada Life) and l'm pretty sure they told be before that they will only pay the money out in pounds,and l believe they said into a UK bank account.
Unfortunately l closed my account there when l moved to the US. So my question is, if l don't have a UK bank account,and l now have a cheque in my hand in pounds sterling,how can l convert the money to USD and move it to the US ? Ideally l'd like to have it converted in the UK because US banks are absolutely useless when it comes to handling foreign currency...they'll take weeks to do it and then try and charge the earth for doing it !
Any suggestions please ?
Thanks
Alan