Urgent transfers

A fast, reliable, highly secure, electronic means of sending money abroad. You can:

• make payments of any amount in any currency to most destinations throughout the world
• provide your beneficiary with funds within 1-2 working days of your account being debited. Payments in Euro to EU countries (and intra-UK) can even be carried out same day
• initiate payments via NatWest branches or from your computer using Bankline
• choose how the charges should be paid

Please read this important legal information

How to make a payment

You should tell us:

• The currency you want the payment to be in
• The name of the person to whom the money is being sent
• Which charges you will be paying

For euro payments to the European Union (EU) & European Economic Area (EEA)

• Their bank's BIC address (essential in the case of euro payments)
• Their international bank account number (IBAN)

For other payments

• The full name of the bank
• Their bank address and sort code
• Their Account number
• Their bank's BIC address - unique identifier code

Cost

• We charge £27 for manual payments. The overseas bank will also make a charge. You can choose to pay all the charges; to pay only our charges; or to have the recipient pay all the charges. You can also send extra information with the payment

International payments comprise both cross-border payments, whether in sterling or currency, and currency payments within the UK.