I have just run into the same problem. I opened a Money Pool to give my wedding guests an easier way to send gift funds. These were to be used for our upcoming honey moon. When I checked our balance I was surprised to see that it was in USD. I don’t recall ever being asked about currency, and I set the account up here in Canada... Anyways I thought this would be fine as we need USD for the honeymoon anyway. Until I tried to link my USD bank account. I find it ridiculous that Canadian banks have such a hard time working with USD. The accounting gymnastics required to move CND money into a registered USD stock trading account *within the same institution* are something to behold... Anyways I’m really annoyed that I can’t simply withdraw my USD and spend it as intended without paying 2X exchange fees. I’ll look into the credit card idea another user mentioned below, but I feel that this whole thing is absurd.
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