I’ve always funded my IBSJ account with my SMBC account by making an international transfer online to IBSJ’s HSBC account. All good and working the way it has been described in a number of previous posts.
Last week I created a reoccurring deposit in ISBJ which gave we a new account to use, a Citibank Japan account. Citibank accounts are usually what is mentioned in all those previous posts, so I set it up the same way I did the HSBC account, as an international transfer location. However, today SMBC called and said I can’t use an international transfer to transfer to Citibank Japan and instead should do a domestic transfer. Of course, the domestic transfer doesn’t work as the account number is too long.
Has anyone experienced this recently and found a solution? I guess Wise is an option, but I’d rather just do one transfer.
by divetri