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Sending Argentine pesos from Switzerland
There's a reason this corridor has been badly served. Argentine pesos are a thin market for banks in Switzerland, so they price it lazily or refuse it. Spain and Italy have deep family ties with Argentina, and Europeans pay Argentine freelancers in pesos.
Grey treats EUR to ARS as a first-class route. You see the rate, you see the fee, and Banco Nación or any Argentine bank receives a domestic credit.
How sending to Argentina works
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Verification takes a passport or residence permit and usually clears while you're still filling in the recipient's details for Buenos Aires. Grey works with regulated partners in Europe.
Fund
Top up from UBS, PostFinance, Raiffeisen or any Swiss bank with a euro account. Or, if a client abroad pays you in dollars, send to Argentina from that balance and skip a conversion.
Send
Argentina needs the recipient's CBU or alias, the 22-digit identifier every Argentine account carries. Enter it, check the ARS amount, send.
Where the cost hides on this route
The ARS your recipient receives at Banco de la Nación, Banco Galicia, Santander Argentina, BBVA Argentina is fixed at confirmation and shown separately from the fee. What you see in Zurich is what arrives.
Your rate is fixed when you tap send
Once you confirm in Zurich, the ARS amount is done. Grey carries the currency risk between confirmation and settlement in Buenos Aires, not you and not your recipient.
For a fee or a rent, that certainty is the point.
A route priced like an afterthought
Formal transfers from Switzerland to Argentina were priced for years as if nobody would compare. Few banks quote ARS at all. Those that do route through dollars with wide margins and slow settlement. Grey shows the comparison before you pay.
On the receiving side
A normal ARS credit into the recipient's account at Banco de la Nación, Banco Galicia, Santander Argentina, BBVA Argentina or any Argentine bank. It shows up like a domestic deposit. Your recipient in Buenos Aires never has to download anything, and you track it from Zurich.
ARS in, nothing out
No receiving fee, no deduction at Banco Nación.
Same-day in most cases
Funded transfers from Zurich usually settle in Argentina the same day.
If they're on Grey too
GreyTag skips the bank entirely and lands in seconds.
Funding options
Swiss senders fund in euros by SEPA from UBS, PostFinance or Raiffeisen. Grey doesn't hold a franc balance, so the euro account is the working balance. Then Buenos Aires is a conversion and a tap.
Local rail
Fund by SEPA transfer in euros from a Swiss bank.
Business income
Revenue in euros or dollars funds the next payment to Buenos Aires.
Existing balance
Already funded? Convert to ARS and send in the same session.
Weekly payments to Buenos Aires are easier with a standing balance than with a fresh top-up from Zurich every time.
The typical Switzerland to Argentina sender
Athletes
Support for young players in Argentine club academies.
Students
Living costs for students at UBA and universities in Córdoba and La Plata.
Freelancers
Payments to Argentine developers, designers and translators who invoice in pesos.
Family
Support for relatives in Buenos Aires, Rosario and Mendoza.
A mixed corridor for senders in Zurich and Geneva. Spain and Italy have deep family ties with Argentina, and Europeans pay Argentine freelancers in pesos. Amounts range from a monthly allowance to a full supplier invoice.
Why send to Argentina with Grey
The value of a transparent EUR to ARS rate isn't visible on any single payment. It shows up in the annual total for a sender in Zurich, and in never having to explain to someone in Buenos Aires why the money arrived short.
Rate and fee shown up front in Zurich. Settlement in ARS to the recipient's own bank in Argentina, usually the same day. [VERIFY ARS local payout live: Notion DB says No, Slack May 12 says testing complete]
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