Staring at the screen while the numbers shift I remember sitting there last Tuesday, refreshing the Hana Bank app over and over. It feels ridiculous looking back, but at the time, it felt like the most important thing in the world. I was trying to move some money for a U.S. stock play, and the…
Trying to move cash from Tokyo back home I’ve been living in Japan for a while now, and honestly, the process of sending money back to Korea still feels like something out of the early 2000s. Every time I get my paycheck in yen, there’s this lingering annoyance about how to actually get that money…
Getting stuck in the transfer loop I honestly thought sending money abroad for my small business hobby would be as easy as sending a Venmo request. I was wrong. I spent a whole afternoon looking at different platforms because I needed to pay a supplier in Europe. I looked at Western Union, some bank wire…
When the app stopped working right when I needed it I honestly thought I had everything figured out. I had been using Utransfer for a few months because the interface felt slightly less intimidating than the corporate banking portals I usually use for my overseas transactions. But then last Tuesday, it just refused to load….