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Those of you who live in Thailand probably have a foreign currency account somewhere. I have a local (baht account) at Kasikorn, and a FC -USD account with Bank Of Ayudhya.
I dont know if there is a new Sherrif in Town over at Ayudhya Towers, but they have become etremely greedy of late.
Generally speaking my employees pay me on the 24th of each month, 75% going offshore in Jersey, the remainder into a USD Bank Of A account.
For over a year, no problem, in fact the transfer to thailand (and this is from Mitsui Bank, Tokyo) was normally in my account the same day.
Now it is taking anywhere up to 7 or more days to transfer for no valid reason.
Each time i go to the branch in HH and take a number and there is generally only 1, 2 if you are lucky falang service desks working.
So an hour wait for service, and a request to trace the money.
Generally spealking the excuse was "oh, it was overlooked, we will deposit it now".
This has happened every month for 4 months, so they are basically using my money, and no doubt a lot of others too, and only depositing when asked to.
On the other hand Kasikorn deposits with in 2 days.
Theres a big drive on by Bank of Ayudhya for FC customers..... take my advice, bank elsewhere.
Those of you who live in Thailand probably have a foreign currency account somewhere. I have a local (baht account) at Kasikorn, and a FC -USD account with Bank Of Ayudhya.
I dont know if there is a new Sherrif in Town over at Ayudhya Towers, but they have become etremely greedy of late.
Generally speaking my employees pay me on the 24th of each month, 75% going offshore in Jersey, the remainder into a USD Bank Of A account.
For over a year, no problem, in fact the transfer to thailand (and this is from Mitsui Bank, Tokyo) was normally in my account the same day.
Now it is taking anywhere up to 7 or more days to transfer for no valid reason.
Each time i go to the branch in HH and take a number and there is generally only 1, 2 if you are lucky falang service desks working.
So an hour wait for service, and a request to trace the money.
Generally spealking the excuse was "oh, it was overlooked, we will deposit it now".
This has happened every month for 4 months, so they are basically using my money, and no doubt a lot of others too, and only depositing when asked to.
On the other hand Kasikorn deposits with in 2 days.
Theres a big drive on by Bank of Ayudhya for FC customers..... take my advice, bank elsewhere.
They're taking the piss Fox 
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