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I'd be happy to know if some of you have found a cheap way to cash the payments from Google in France?
Our bank is taking a lot of money from us to accept the payment...
Thanks.
A private option would be "European de Banque" basically Barclays in France ..( you have to have considerable cash flow for them to take you ) ...
The charges you are seeing are down to the "correspondent banque" system that french banks use to "negotiate" cheques by ..Some of them can go through as many as 6 other banks to deal with a non french bank ...
Some bank charges for "negotiation" can run to 40€ or 50$ to "negotiate" a check for only 10$ ( yes thats french banking for you )...plus a wait of six weeks for funds ..and ( altho this doesn't apply to adsense checks ) if some one writes you a "rubber check" ..( in France "cheque en bois" ..literally "wooden check" ..don't ask why it's called that ;) ..you can get charged upto 300$ for the thing hitting your bank account even tho someone else wrote it to you!
ps ..inspite of the "international credentials" of the Credit lyonais and Credit agricole ,Soc gen etc ..they all use "correspondent banques"..
