Freelancers in EU, best bank to get paid in USD?

Question

To my fellow freelancers who live in the EU: What's the best bank to get paid in USD? I live in Germany and currently use Revolut, which works fine. But I don't particularly like the company and the app experience. I'm planning to switching to Wise, even though they are more expensive.Do you have any recommendations?

anyfoo · Accepted Answer

In the German expat community, Wise is indeed well-known and often recommended.
But what's with that name change? A few years ago they went from TransferWise to Wise. That seems like such a generic name, and now in that same community you see so many people say thing like "Wise (ex-TransferWise)", and here in the comments as well.
I thought about how much of a bad idea this name change was years ago when it happened, and the still ongoing disambiguation when mentioning it makes me feel that I was right...

nerdawson · Answer

Wise Borderless account. You get US account details to give your client and can transfer to your local currency at near perfect rates. I wasted thousands of dollars by not moving to that system sooner.

JonChesterfield · Answer

TransferWise. Except they renamed it Wise at some point. Zero bother and cheap as far as I can tell (costs get buried in exchange rates on some of these things).

drakonka · Answer

I've used Wise for this and have had no complaints.

darnfish · Answer

How come you don't like Revolut?

d--b · Answer

I&rsquo;ve been using Wise too. It works fine.