This is always a problem, and there's no easy way to get around it. You can get charged by your bank in the US to send it, and then again by the bank in Finland to receive it. I typically expense these fees back to my company.

The way I have handled it in the past is to do fewer but larger transactions, or use a US issued debit card and make ATM withdrawels in Finland (but there is a EUR2 fee per transaction typically). That way you can pull a few hundred Euro's a day from your US account.

My prefered way to handle expenses in Finland is to use a US credit card to make all purchases, then have my US employer direct deposit my expense refund into my US account, then use the internet to pay off the credit card. There's no fees for any of this, but credit card can't be used in Finland for all expenses.

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