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taka for someone in Dhaka
The people sending from Zurich and Geneva to Bangladesh tend to know exactly what the recipient needs in taka. A rate that moves between send and settlement breaks that.
Grey fixes the EUR to BDT rate when you confirm and pays into Sonali Bank, BRAC Bank, Dutch-Bangla Bank, Islami Bank, City Bank or any Bangladeshi bank. European fashion brands pay Bangladeshi factories, and the Bangladeshi diaspora in Europe sends home regularly.
How sending to Bangladesh works
Sign up
Download Grey, verify with your passport or residence permit, and you're set in a few minutes. Grey works with regulated partners in Europe.
Fund
Send euros to your Grey balance by SEPA transfer in euros from a Swiss bank. Hold it there, and convert to BDT only when the payment to Dhaka is due.
Send
Bangladesh needs bank, branch and account number, since the same bank has hundreds of branches. Enter all three, confirm BDT, send.
The cost of a transfer to Dhaka
Grey shows one rate, EUR to BDT, and one fee. Both are fixed before you send from Zurich. The amount that reaches Dhaka matches what you were shown.
What you agree is what arrives
The rate you accept in Zurich is the rate applied. Movements in either currency afterwards don't touch what arrives at Sonali Bank, BRAC Bank, Dutch-Bangla Bank, Islami Bank, City Bank.
Bangladeshi freelancers and small suppliers are used to being paid in dollars and losing a margin to their bank. Paying in taka, at a rate they can check, marks you out as a client worth keeping.
What Swiss senders put up with before
Banks in Bangladesh charge receiving fees on international wires and sometimes hold them for review. A payment from Zurich that lands as a domestic BDT credit at Sonali Bank, BRAC Bank, Dutch-Bangla Bank, Islami Bank, City Bank clears faster and arrives whole.
BDT into the account, nothing else
The person in Dhaka gets what they'd get from a local transfer: BDT credited to their account at Sonali Bank, BRAC Bank, Dutch-Bangla Bank, Islami Bank, City Bank. No collection, no code, no receiving fee. Confirmation shows in your app in Zurich at the same time.
BRAC Bank and the rest
Every bank in Bangladesh is covered, from the big names to regional ones.
Domestic credit
Your recipient sees a normal BDT deposit, not an international wire.
Confirmation in Zurich
The app in Switzerland shows settled the moment Dhaka receives it.
Funding from Switzerland, in practice
Most Swiss senders top up in euros and convert to BDT on the day. 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.
Bank transfer
UBS, PostFinance, Raiffeisen or any Swiss bank with a euro account to your Grey EUR account, usually within minutes.
Foreign earnings
USD from an overseas employer or platform can fund the Bangladesh transfer directly.
Wallet balance
Convert and send the same minute.
If the BDT amount matters more than the EUR amount, enter the BDT figure first and let Grey work back to what you'll pay.
Who this route is for
Garment importers
Deposits and balance payments to factories in Dhaka, Gazipur and Chittagong.
Remote hiring
Monthly pay for Bangladeshi developers, designers and support staff.
Pharmaceutical buyers
Payments to Bangladeshi generic drug manufacturers and distributors.
Family support
Monthly transfers to relatives in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and Comilla.
Geneva and Zurich host international organisations, NGOs and banks whose staff send worldwide. On the Bangladesh side, the picture is this. European fashion brands pay Bangladeshi factories, and the Bangladeshi diaspora in Europe sends home regularly.
The case for Grey on this route
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