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How to send money to the UK 🇬🇧

Learn more about sending payments to the United Kingdom

Written by Mojisola Aimasiko
Updated this week

Please ensure you have funded your GBP balance in order to send payments to the UK. You can swap from supported currencies to GBP or deposit funds using your UK account.

You can learn more about the supported currency pairs on the rates page and how to convert funds here.

We only support sending GBP to the United Kingdom via Faster Payments (FPS), CHAPs, or Bacs.

Here's how:

On the website

  • Log in to your account.

  • Tap on "Send" on your homepage or "Send Money" on your Accounts page

  • Click on "Send via bank transfer."

  • Choose to "Send to a new recipient."

  • Search for the "United Kingdom" as your destination country and select the currency you want to send

  • Fill out the recipient account details, and follow the prompt.


On the mobile app

  • Log in to your account.

  • Tap on "Send" on your homepage

  • Click on "Send via bank transfer."

  • Choose to "Send to a new recipient."

  • Search for the "United Kingdom" as your destination country and select the currency you want to send

  • Fill out the recipient account details, follow the prompts, and click the Send icon.


  • Using Grey tags, you can send GBP to a Grey user or send funds to a new recipient. You can learn how to create a Grey tag here and send funds using a Grey tag here.

  • If you choose to send to a new recipient, you must fill out specific details like the recipient's country, recipient type, account number, sort code, SWIFT code, first and last name, and a description (optional).

  • Once you have input the details, you need to validate the recipient. After the beneficiary has been validated, enter your 2FA code to complete your transaction.

  • GBP transactions usually take 1-3 working days, excluding weekends and public holidays.

  • There is a 0.5% fee charged when you send funds (a minimum of 2 GBP and a maximum of 10 GBP).

  • You can send out a minimum of 10 GBP and a maximum of 5,000 GBP per transaction.

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