Travel money
You can change the money you need for your trip at all BLS Travel Centres.
What's more, the Travel card offers you secure and simple travel money.
Foreign currencies
You can change the money you need for your trip at the BLS currency exchange offices, whose services you can also use to change back money you didn't spend. The exchange offices have most currencies on hand, usually in small banknote denominations as well. You can also order other foreign currencies from our currency exchange offices, which we will be very happy to organise for you.
Travel – the prepaid card for your adventures
Always safe – the prepaid card for your adventures
The popular Travel Cash card is now called Travel.
Swiss Bankers Travel is the ideal travel card, which you can top up with credit as needed and use like a credit card to make cashless payments.
Safe and convenient payments, globally
Mobile payments with your smartphone
Available to anyone now
Top up your credit at any time
Highly secure
Clear and transparent conditions
You can find a detailed fees overview online at swissbankers.ch.
Some examples
- No annual fee
- No foreign currency fees
- Top-up fee 1.5%
- Free replacement card in the event of loss or Theft
Includes the Hotelcard – up to 50% off on the best hotels
- Block card: +41 31 710 12 15 Customer service
- Account overview – online
Life – the prepaid card for everyday use
Always secure – the prepaid card for everyday use.
Mastercard Prepaid is now called Life.
Swiss Bankers Life is the ideal card for everyday use, which you can top up with credit as needed and use like a credit card to make cashless payments.
Safe and convenient payments, globally
Mobile payments with your smartphone
Available to anyone now
Top up your credit at any time
Clear and transparent conditions
You can find a detailed fees overview online at swissbankers.ch.
Some examples
- Annual fee CHF 45.00
- ATM withdrawal fee in Switzerland CHF 5.00
- No transaction fees per payment (incl. online)
- No top-up fee
- Block card: +41 31 710 12 15 Customer service
- Account overview – online
Western Union Send cash abroad
The simple way to transfer money globally
If you need to quickly send or receive money around the world, you can rely on the service offered by Western Union Money Transfer.
Transfer to over 200 countries
The money you transfer will quickly be made available to the recipient at one of over 400,000 payment centres. To make the withdrawal, all the recipient needs is a valid official form of ID (passport, ID card, driver’s licence)
What you need
- Sending money: name of the recipient as it appears on their official form of ID
- Receiving money: transaction number, the name of the sender and the amount sent
- Valid official form of ID
- Payments can be made in cash in Swiss francs, debit card, Mastercard and Visa
Restrictions
Please make sure you contact our Western Union office in your area to find out if any restrictions and stipulations apply regarding maximum amounts of money that may be sent, information that needs to be provided on the reasons for the transaction, etc.
Send & Save Service
An option is available for transferring money to selected countries: “Send & Save” offers not only the reliable top-class service that Western Union is famous for but also lower transfer fees from CHF 5.00 upwards.