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Step 2: Worldwide Independence: What Is the Best Solution for Making Payments when Traveling and Spending Time Abroad?
You don't study just to deepen your specialist knowledge. Traveling and stays abroad contribute to expanding your personal horizons. Enjoy your travels with the right travel money.
Academica Private account or Academica plus Private account holders also benefit from convenient means of payment when traveling abroad or embarking on a study stay.
The Maestro Card: The Bank Card for Today
The Maestro Card provides you with worldwide access to your account and many other benefits, such as:
- Cash withdrawal worldwide in the local currency at more than 820,000 cash dispensers
- Cashless payments in 7.3 million stores, hotels, and restaurants in more than 112 other countries or anywhere else that you see the Maestro logo
- Control over your spending via direct debiting of your account and a personal spending limit
- HELP line with a toll-free number for calls from Switzerland
Would you like to take advantage of the benefits of a Maestro Card and Academica Private account? You can do so using our Online Account Opening Form.
Travelers Cheques: Safe and Reliable
Travelers Cheques allow you to withdraw cash from banks and exchange offices over the world. We offer travellers cheques from Swiss Bankers and American Express in numerous currencies. You can order travelers cheques directly from our Cash Service. Please reserve larger amounts by telephoning +41 848 880 840.
Foreign Currency Accounts for Longer Stays Abroad
The Private account euro is particularly convenient for study stays in Europe or frequent transactions in euros. A Maestro card linked to your account allows you to make cashless payments in euros in the Euro zone without suffering an exchange rate loss and to withdraw cash in euros from cash dispensers.
You have more fun traveling abroad if you know that your finances are both flexible and secure. In the next step, we will show you how you can fulfill your dreams at home.
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