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Living between two countries

Clear guides on paperwork, money and security for people who moved from Latin America to Europe. Written by the team that runs the platform.

The payer says they paid, the intermediary says it received, and your bank knows nothing. Where to look at each leg, and which CCI closes the chain.

With an intermediary in the middle, a payment can stall over the name or bounce over the account type. They are two different failures, fixed in two…

Payoneer sits between whoever pays you and your account in Argentina. That adds one more point where the holder is checked, and it is where most…

In Peru a dollar account looks like it closes the loop on international payments. Sometimes it does, and sometimes it just moves the conversion…

Between your Fiverr balance and the pesos in your account sits a conversion nobody charges you for separately. How to see it, and how to compare…

Between the platform balance and the pesos in your account there can be more than one currency change. Each one has a price, and none of them is…

The balance shows as available and there is no movement in the account. The three clocks of a withdrawal, and the Peruvian decision of which account…

In Colombia a withdrawal can travel for days and bounce at the end over one mis-ticked field. When that happens the clock does not pause: it resets.

Between the client's approval and money in your Argentine account, three separate clocks are running. Only one depends on you, and it isn't the one…

The withdrawal form asks for twenty digits and your banking app shows a shorter number. Which one goes in, and why the currency of the account is a…

Deel's form asks for the number, but in Colombia a payment needs four details to land. The one that bounces most is the account type.

The payment leaves Deel and the last leg is a local one. What you saved as the destination, CBU, CVU or alias, and whose name is on it, decides what…

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