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Argentine pesos for someone in Buenos Aires
The people sending from Dubai and Abu Dhabi to Argentina tend to know exactly what the recipient needs in Argentine pesos. A rate that moves between send and settlement breaks that.
Grey fixes the USD to ARS rate when you confirm and pays into Banco de la Nación, Banco Galicia, Santander Argentina, BBVA Argentina or any Argentine bank. Gulf-based families support students and relatives in Buenos Aires, and Gulf firms pay Argentine contractors.
How sending to Argentina works
Sign up
Register with your passport or Emirates ID in a few minutes. Your Grey account comes with foreign-currency details for receiving pay from overseas. Grey works with licensed partners serving the Gulf.
Fund
Hold your foreign earnings in USD on Grey. When a payment to Argentina is due, convert exactly that amount to ARS and send.
Send
Argentina needs the recipient's CBU or alias, the 22-digit identifier every Argentine account carries. Enter it, check the ARS amount, send.
The cost of a transfer to Buenos Aires
Grey shows one rate, USD to ARS, and one fee. Both are fixed before you send from Dubai. The amount that reaches Buenos Aires matches what you were shown.
What you agree is what arrives
The rate you accept in Dubai is the rate applied. Movements in either currency afterwards don't touch what arrives at Banco de la Nación, Banco Galicia, Santander Argentina, BBVA Argentina.
Few banks quote ARS at all. Those that do route through dollars with wide margins and slow settlement.
What UAE-based senders put up with before
Banks in Argentina charge receiving fees on international wires and sometimes hold them for review. A payment from Dubai that lands as a domestic ARS credit at Banco de la Nación, Banco Galicia, Santander Argentina, BBVA Argentina clears faster and arrives whole.
ARS into the account, nothing else
The person in Buenos Aires gets what they'd get from a local transfer: ARS credited to their account at Banco de la Nación, Banco Galicia, Santander Argentina, BBVA Argentina. No collection, no code, no receiving fee. Confirmation shows in your app in Dubai at the same time.
Banco Nación and the rest
Every bank in Argentina is covered, from the big names to regional ones.
Domestic credit
Your recipient sees a normal ARS deposit, not an international wire.
Confirmation in Dubai
The app in the UAE shows settled the moment Buenos Aires receives it.
Funding from the UAE, in practice
Before the ARS reaches Buenos Aires, the money has to get onto Grey in Dubai. UAE residents fund Grey from foreign income: employer payroll in USD, overseas clients, family abroad. The balance sends onward without touching dirhams. Hold the balance in dollars and convert to ARS exactly when the payment to Buenos Aires is due.
USD account
Receive salary or client payments into your Grey USD details.
EUR or GBP account
European or UK income lands here and converts to ARS directly.
GreyTag
Money from other Grey users arrives instantly and free.
If the ARS amount matters more than the USD amount, enter the ARS figure first and let Grey work back to what you'll pay.
Who this route is for
Freelancers
Payments to Argentine developers, designers and translators who invoice in pesos.
Family
Support for relatives in Buenos Aires, Rosario and Mendoza.
Athletes
Support for young players in Argentine club academies.
Students
Living costs for students at UBA and universities in Córdoba and La Plata.
Dubai and Abu Dhabi are expatriate cities. Residents earning from abroad hold USD on Grey and send home without a dirham step. On the Argentina side, the picture is this. Gulf-based families support students and relatives in Buenos Aires, and Gulf firms pay Argentine contractors.
The case for Grey on this route
If you send to Buenos Aires regularly from Dubai, the difference between a good rate and a bad one isn't felt on one transfer. It's felt at the end of the year.
Same-day ARS into any bank in Argentina for most funded transfers from Dubai, with the cost on screen before you send. [VERIFY ARS local payout live: Notion DB says No, Slack May 12 says testing complete]
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