Sending Money to India

Although I don't have HSBNC brnach in my cit, I mainly opened an accounttheir due to good Online Savings rate. Latyer I opened a checking account. I find their wire facility prett useful. Only thing is thatyou need to have a phone password ahead of time. Once you have all the right accounts numberrs in place, all I do is fax the info from US in the am time to their fax number and they wire it within an gour or so. In all the three-four transfers I have done, the money gets deposited in my parents ICICI account on same day. They typically check it around 3 pm or 4 pm the very next day and the money is in their account. Never had any problems. You need to provide all SWIFT code/Intermeditae bank a/c etc, properly in the fax. One thing though, I have not compared their exchnage rate, if it is the best or not.