Can anyone please give me advice on how to open an Italian Bank Account and best banks to use? Thanks.

Hi Violet

If you go to the board index click on finance there is a whole section on banks post offices and peoples experiences there, hopefully you will find what you are looking for,

cheers Diane
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Can anybody tell me what this says please?

Gentile Cliente,

ti informiamo che Barclays ha reso disponibile per te una nuova
comunicazione relativa alla tua posizione.

Per consultare on line questo nuovo documento - salvarlo, stamparlo e
archiviarlo - accedi alla tua area riservata direttamente dal sito
www.barclays.it e clicca su Comunicazioni.

Per ogni segnalazione o richiesta di informazione puoi rivolgerti al tuo
Relationship Manager o al tuo Promotore Finanziario.

Questo è un messaggio inviato automaticamente; ti chiediamo pertanto di non
rispondere a questo messaggio.

I nostri migliori saluti.

Barclays Bank

Yorkylad2008

This is what it says.

Dear Customer,

Please note that Barclays has made available to you a new
Notice on your location.

To see this new document online - save, print and
archive - go to your private area directly from the site
www.barclays.it and click on Communications.

For any suggestion or request for information you can consult your
Relationship Manager or your Financial promoter.

This is a message sent automatically, we ask that you not
reply to this message.

Our best regards.

Barclays Bank

lorica

thanks for that Diane. I'm sure it will help.

Violet

Thank you Lorica. Most Helpful. Now could you nip oover to Bergamotto and kick some a** with the builder.

Hi Yorkylad2008,
For future reference use "Google translate" for translations. It's not perfect but gives you the gist of any text that you need for translating.
davidnam

Also consider buying a computer translator - I bought 'Idiomax' and it is good. I was even complimented on the quality of my Italian!

I tried to find the Idiomax but came across alot of versions. Which one have you bought and from where?

Cheers
Elise

http://www.idiomax.com/translation-software-suite.aspx
http://www.idiomax.com/office-translator.aspx

This looks like the newer version Vista and Office2010 etc..... I have had mine for a while and was about £80 via download. (Idiomax Translation Suite v5.0).

It's not cheap, but is very good (having been complimented on my Italian - and I really can't speak a word!!). It also helps you to learn how to phrase things - my test is to translate Eng-Italian; then translate it back! It helps you make straightforward sentences which are not misleading due to our coloquialisms...... Got it? (I mean: do you understand what I have said?)

Once you get tuned into it, it is really quite good. It also integrates with Internet Explorer, but some of its translations there are really really funny; try Enel's website for a start as there are parts where I just have not got a clue what they really mean!!!

<<Incidentally, I don't use my credit card for 'unknown' web purchases. I use my pre-pay Mastercard...... better safe than sorry>>

Can anyone help me translate this from my Bank account statement
Competenze e interessi
they have charged me for it but all my translation online haven't made sense.

Stands for Bank charges plus interest

Thanks, was getting worried as my translations mentioned Skills and interests which obviously didn't make sense.

I plan to open an Italian Bank account my next trip over Sept/10.
The World's 50 Safest Banks 2009(Global Finance); Italy had 1; Intesa Sanpaolo ranked #32 in the world. You may want to check into this
one.
Cheryl