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Show HN: World’s first £3 flat fee (0% FX markup) money transfer service

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How do you avoid adverse selection from traders that have lower latency? E.g if £/$ drops from 1.94 to 1.92 can someone aware of this before you convert £ to $ on your platform?

Great question! We hold rates for customers for up to an hour and customers can only hold one rate at a time, so the risk is minimal - but we do price that risk into our business model.

Re: Show HN: World’s first £3 flat fee (0% FX markup) money transfer service

#13
That looks great.

Could you please elaborate a little bit more about your interbanking network, your connection to these etc.? How do you route from UK to Australia, e.g.? To EU?

Do you support instant payments on any of yours connections? If yes, which scheme(s) do you support?

Re: Show HN: World’s first £3 flat fee (0% FX markup) money transfer service

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Is this only for GBP into other currencies?I use Wise to transfer from my Canadian bank into my Spanish one, would Atlantic.money work for me? Most of the fees I pay are for my Canadian bank to get the money into the Wise system, but this still seems cheaper.

Re: Show HN: World’s first £3 flat fee (0% FX markup) money transfer service

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We're hearing average people are most interested in transfers of fiat currency between bank accounts. In our research, we could use crypto in our central treasury for conversion or cross-border transactions, but the fiat ⭤ crypto onramp and offramp steps remain so those transfers are not quite instant or free. But if there's a way to use crypto to make our transfers faster and cheaper, I'm all ears :)

Re: Show HN: World’s first £3 flat fee (0% FX markup) money transfer service

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How do you avoid adverse selection from traders that have lower latency? E.g if £/$ drops from 1.94 to 1.92 can someone aware of this before you convert £ to $ on your platform?

Great question! We hold rates for customers for up to an hour and customers can only hold one rate at a time, so the risk is minimal - but we do price that risk into our business model.

So I can shuffle $1M between £ and $, costing £6/hour, and earning guaranteed money whenever the rate moves by more than 0.00003 in a half hour period?

Sounds open to abuse!

Re: Show HN: World’s first £3 flat fee (0% FX markup) money transfer service

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Is this only for GBP into other currencies?I use Wise to transfer from my Canadian bank into my Spanish one, would Atlantic.money work for me? Most of the fees I pay are for my Canadian bank to get the money into the Wise system, but this still seems cheaper.

We're starting with GBP → 9 currencies but can't wait to add more corridors. Inbound EUR is next with more coming after. We're starting with a smaller set of currency corridors because we're building this network from scratch - that's why our fees are so low.

Re: Show HN: World’s first £3 flat fee (0% FX markup) money transfer service

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> Moving money across borders is virtually free and instant.

If you want cryptocurrency at each end, sure, and don't mind exposure to the rapidly fluctuating values, and pick a cryptocurrency that has low transaction fees.

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