I want to wire transfer money from my passbook (no ATM or debit card) US$ savings account in the Philippines to my account at Thai Military Bank. The Thai bank says they cannot accept transfers from overseas banks. I also tried Kasikorn Bank here in Nong Khai with the same response. I wonder if this is a Nong Khai thing, and would I have better luck in Bangkok.

Any advice would be much appreciated. I sure don't want to make a special trip to Manila.

you will need to initiate the transfer from your bank in the phillipeans...or a branch of your phillines bank in Thailand. Ask the receiving bank for their international wire tranfer codes, and give that to your bank in the phillipeans.

All foreign transfers are routed through the main branch in Bangkok. Google for the SWIFT number of the bank you have an account with. The account number gets it to the local bank. But unless you have some kind of wire transfer agreement with password type authorization procedure with your PI bank I suspect you will have to be there to do the transfer.

The Thai bank says they cannot accept transfers from overseas banks. I also tried Kasikorn Bank here in Nong Khai with the same response.

Did you speak to the manager? I can understand standard customer service in Nong Khai not being familiar with the procedure but the branch manager definitely should be!

Kasikorn does accept wire transfers from overseas banks. The procedure I have followed is to give the following instructions:

Kasikorn SWIFT Code: TFBSTHBK

Branch: [insert your branch name here]

Account Number: [insert your account number here]

Good luck on initiating the wire transfer in the Phillippines. I've done it remotely from the States, but I had to set it up before hand.

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