FairFX travel money and card
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FairFX is a currency exchange platform based in London. Find out what FairFX offers and the fees it charges, to see whether you should get your travel money through the company before you go abroad.
FairFX offers 3 services:
FairFX offers one card, which can hold up to 20 currencies at a time.
Here’s a list of the main currencies that are available with FairFX. These currencies can be bought as travel cash or loaded on to the FairFX Currency Card.
For your security as well as FairFX’s, there are some limits on how much you can load onto your FairFX Currency Card – and how much you can carry on your card at once.
Minimum you can load: £10 (for new customers the first initial load must be a minimum of £50 or equivalent in the requested currency)
Maximum you can load in one go: £12,500
Maximum you can hold: £50,000
Once you have ordered your card it can take 3-5 working days for you to receive it. FairFX does not have a fast track service and you cannot collect cards from any collection points.
If you lose it or it’s stolen, you can cancel the card. If you think you’ve just misplaced it, you can freeze it. Money you deposit with FairFX is not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), like it would be in a bank, but the money is kept in “safeguarded” accounts so it’s ring-fenced. You can find out more about how this works in our guide to the FSCS.
It’s free to use your FairFX Currency Card online or at a point of sale – for example in a shop or restaurant – if you’re abroad and using one of the 20 currencies that you can buy and hold in the account.
Where you could expect to incur fees is at a foreign ATM. FairFX charges a fee and the ATM network provider may add a surcharge. There is also a small FairFX fee for withdrawing money in the UK. And it’s worth knowing that if your card has expired and it has a leftover balance, FairFX will charge you an inactivity fee of £2 a month.
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