Lower bank fees coming

Starting connected Thursday, Greek banks will person to trim the interest to 0.5 euros for each transfers up to €5,000, arsenic from that day a caller regularisation harmonizing the outgo of sending wealth within the European Union for each types of transfers comes into force.

The implementation of the regularisation brings Greek lenders 1 step person to the work imposed by the authorities to trim the committee for wealth transfers up to €5,000 to conscionable 50 cents. For amounts supra €5,000, banks will person to instrumentality caller tariffs, but they cannot differentiate betwixt antithetic types of transfers, such arsenic sending within a fewer seconds and a communal transfer that requires one, two oregon much days.

It should beryllium noted that the caller regularisation does not supply for an precocious oregon little committee bounds for a transaction and the bounds of €0.5 is the effect of the authorities determination to marque wealth transfers via web oregon mobile banking accessible for specific amounts, which until present were subject to a committee of €1 to €2.50.

As portion of the authorities interventions, banks are obliged, by the extremity of the period astatine the latest, to zero retired the committee for payments via web and mobile banking of debts concerning the state, κοινωνικά information funds, section authorities organizations, energy, telecommunications, water supply companies and security companies. The measures interest transactions carried retired by individuals, freelancers and sole proprietors of companies.

From the aforesaid date, the complaint for currency withdrawals successful municipalities where there is an ATM of lone 1 banking instauration will besides beryllium zero. Accordingly, the complaint for equilibrium inquiries astatine the ATM of different slope passim the state is zeroed – presently €0.20. The complaint for topping up prepaid cards with an magnitude of up to €100 will besides beryllium zero (from astir €1 presently successful force). Finally, the 50% simplification successful commissions for purchases with debit, recognition and prepaid cards via POS is extended, from €10 nowadays to €20.