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Foreign currency account

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Foreign currency accounts can help you manage your receipts and payments when trading internationally while limiting the risk and expense involved in exchanging currencies.

Foreign currency accounts are available to any business holding a Lloyds TSB sterling business current account.

Simplifies payment and collection of foreign currencies

Overdrafts available in all major currencies

Reduce the risk of adverse movements in exchange rates

For more information contact our international business team on 0845 300 0101 (open 8.30am to 5pm Monday to Friday). Alternatively, fill out a request for further information form or download our Foreign currency account guide (pdf).

Features & Benefits of Foreign currency account

  • Foreign currency accounts can avoid the need to transfer to sterling when receiving monies from overseas.
  • They can be used to fund short-term cashflow requirements in a range of currencies.
  • Payment and collection of foreign currency funds is simplified.
  • You can reduce the risk of adverse movements in exchange rates.
  • We can arrange overdrafts in all major currencies.
  • Interest is paid on some of your credit balances.
  • Interest is calculated on the credit balance each day and paid half-yearly. Basic rate tax is normally deducted automatically from any credit interest we pay. Credit interest rates can vary from day-to-day. 

View foreign currency accounts interest terms 

View Foreign currency account rates and charges

Important information

Before you apply for this account, please view the terms and conditions.

How do I open a new Foreign currency account?

By telephone

Call 0845 300 0101 for more information.

Calls may be monitored or recorded in case we need to check we have carried out your instructions correctly and to help improve our quality of service.
If you need to call us from abroad, or prefer not to use our 0845 number, you can also call us on +44 (0)1733 347338 to speak to one of our advisors.

The documents on this page are pdf files. To read pdf files you need the Adobe Acrobat Reader software. To download this application free of charge please use this link to go to the Adobe website (customers should note that this link will open in a new browser window). Although Lloyds TSB Bank plc takes every precaution in ensuring that the files are available for you to download from this site are virus free, we cannot guarantee that the file you are about to download is free from viruses or other similar codes or programs.
It is a condition of allowing you to download through our site that any liability on our part in respect of, or arising directly or indirectly out of, any virus or similar codes or programs is excluded.
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