Send money from Ireland to Argentina
Euro converts once into Argentine pesos at a rate fixed when you confirm, and the pesos are paid into the recipient's account at Banco de la Nación, Banco Galicia, Santander Argentina, BBVA Argentina or another Argentine bank. All you need from them is a CBU or CVU.
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Two old friends with a newer connection
The link is older than most people in Dublin realise. Argentina has a long-settled community of Irish descent, and the founder of its navy, William Brown, came from Foxford in County Mayo. Today the traffic mostly runs the other way: young Argentines on working holidays in Dublin, Galway and Cork, many more who arrived on an Italian or Spanish passport and stayed in hospitality, tech or construction, and the parents, rents and bills they still cover in Buenos Aires, Rosario and Córdoba.
There is a business side too. Irish software firms and agencies hire Argentine developers, designers and translators, who invoice in pesos and would rather be paid in pesos than handed dollars to sell on.
Grey converts euro to Argentine pesos here in Ireland, in one step, with the rate and the fee shown before you confirm. The pesos are credited to the recipient's own account, and they do not need Grey to receive them.
Three steps, and the CBU or CVU
Sign up
The account is free, opens in about five minutes and needs one valid identity document, whether that is an Irish, Argentine, Italian or Spanish passport.
Fund in euro
Send euro by SEPA transfer from AIB, Bank of Ireland, Permanent TSB, An Post Money or your credit union, and it waits on the balance until you convert.
Send pesos
Ask the recipient for their 22-digit CBU, or a CVU if they use a virtual account, check the peso figure and the fee, then confirm.
Where the cost sits on a euro to peso payment
Grey prices euro to Argentine pesos directly from Ireland. The fee and the rate appear as separate figures before you confirm, and the peso total beneath them is what the CBU or CVU account is credited with.
The cost people forget is delay. With a currency that moves the way the peso does, a payment that takes days to clear can be worth less in local terms on arrival. Funded transfers to Argentina usually settle the same day, which shrinks that window considerably.
A peso figure that holds from Dublin to Buenos Aires
The euro to peso rate is fixed at the moment you confirm. Whatever the peso does in the hours afterwards, the amount credited at Banco Nación or Galicia is the amount you agreed in Ireland.
For a monthly sum promised to a parent, or a developer's invoice with a peso total on it, that is the difference between a payment and an estimate.
Grey against a peso payment from an Irish bank
Ask an Irish bank for Argentine pesos and you are usually offered dollars or euro by international transfer instead, with the conversion left to a bank in Argentina at a rate you never see. Revolut may already be on your phone, and it is worth comparing on the one number that counts: the pesos that land. Grey shows that figure before you confirm, fixes it, and pays it into the CBU or CVU account as a local credit.
What arrives in Argentina
Argentine pesos in the recipient's own account, appearing as a local transfer. There is nothing to collect, no Grey account to open and nothing taken off by Grey at their end.
Any Argentine bank
Banco de la Nación, Banco Galicia, Santander Argentina, BBVA Argentina and other banks receive the pesos into an ordinary account.
CBU or CVU
A CBU identifies a bank account and a CVU a virtual one. Either works, and Grey keeps it for the next payment.
Usually the same day
From a funded balance, transfers to Argentina usually settle the same day, and every stage shows in the app.
Getting euro onto Grey ahead of the transfer
Most senders in Ireland settle into one of three rhythms, depending on whether the money is family support or an invoice.
After payday
A SEPA transfer when your wages land covers the monthly sum to Argentina and keeps a little back for the unexpected.
Against an invoice
Irish firms paying Argentine contractors move the euro across once the invoice is approved and convert on the due date.
From what remains
Euro left after the previous transfer stays on the balance and trims the size of the next top-up.
The CBU or CVU is stored after the first payment, so the next transfer to the same person needs only an amount.
What money goes from Ireland to Argentina for
Working holiday savings
Argentines on a working holiday in Dublin or Galway sending savings home to cover rent, debts or family costs.
Parents and grandparents
Regular support to family in Buenos Aires, Rosario, Córdoba or Mendoza from Argentines settled in Ireland.
Developers and designers
Irish tech firms and agencies paying Argentine contractors who invoice in pesos.
Property and paperwork
Expenses, taxes and maintenance on a flat in Argentina kept by someone now living in Ireland.
Mostly people, some business, and almost all of it tied to a peso bill with a date on it.
Why the Argentina route works better on Grey
On a currency as restless as the peso, the risk is not the fee. It is euro leaving Ireland and turning into an unknown number of pesos somewhere along the way, after you can no longer see it.
Euro in from your Irish bank, Argentine pesos out to a CBU or CVU. The rate is fixed when you confirm and the pesos land at Banco Nación, Galicia, Santander Argentina, BBVA Argentina or any other bank there.
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