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2020 Christmas & New Year Opening Hours: Markets and Customer Experience

To help our customers plan their transfers this festive season, we are sharing the market opening hours, our customer experience opening hours  and transfer cut-off times.

Our Payments Department and banking partners will close or have reduced hours from Thursday 24 December. Regular market hours will resume on Monday 4 January.

Market Availability: 

Date Market Availability Note

Monday 21 December

Open 24 hours

 

Tuesday 22 December

Open 24 hours

 

Wednesday 23 December

Open 24 hours

 

Thursday 24 December

Open 00:00-16:00 GMT

Christmas Eve

Friday 25 December

Closed

Christmas Day

Saturday 26 December

Closed

 

Sunday 27 December

Open 22:30-00:00 GMT

 

Monday 28 December

Open 24 hours

 

Tuesday 29 December

Open 24 hours

 

Wednesday 30 December

Open 24 hours

 

Thursday 31 December

Open 00:00-20:00 GMT

 

Friday 1 January

Closed

New Year’s Day

Saturday 2 January

Closed

 

Sunday 3 January

Open 22:30-00:00 GMT

 

Monday 4 January

Open 24 hours

 

Our customer experience teams in both Ireland and Australia will be on hand for much of the festive season, with our regular 24-hour service resuming on Monday 4 January.

Customer Experience Department: 

Date Hours availability Note

Monday 21 December

Open 24 hours

 

Tuesday 22 December

Open 24 hours

 

Wednesday 23 December

Open 24 hours

 

Thursday 24 December

Open 00:00-14:00 GMT

Christmas Eve

Friday 25 December

Closed

Christmas Day

Saturday 26 December

Closed

 

Sunday 27 December

Open 21:00-00:00 GMT

 

Monday 28 December

Open 00:00-18:00 & 21:00-00:00 GMT

 

Tuesday 29 December

Open 00:00-18:00 & 21:00-00:00 GMT

 

Wednesday 30 December

Open 00:00-18:00 & 21:00-00:00 GMT

 

Thursday 31 December

Open 00:00-18:00 GMT

 

Friday 1 January

Closed

New Year’s Day

Saturday 2 January

Open 09:00 - 16:00 GMT

 

Sunday 3 January

Open 09:00 - 16:00 GMT

 

Monday 4 January

Open 24 hours

 
 

Cut-off times

On normal business days we make every effort to process all payments in line with our current cut-off times as per our exchange process times. 

Customers who need funds to be received before 24 December:

  • Please ensure that payments are submitted well in advance of our suggested dates (below) to avoid any potential delays.
  • Consider processing cut-off times when instructing your payment.

To receive funds by 24 December 2020:

Currency Final day to Top Up

GBP

23 December

AUD

22 December

USD

22 December

EUR

22 December

Currency Final day to Transfer Out

GBP

23 December

AUD

22 December

USD

23 December

EUR

22 December


Tips for accessing your CurrencyFair account during the holidays: 

  1. You may need to log in to CurrencyFair or add a new bank account while you’re away over the holidays. To do this, you will need to complete Two-Factor Authentication. Find out how to set this up here, or download it for iOS and Android. For even greater convenience, you can also sync the Google Authenticator app to your CurrencyFair account.
  2. If you won’t have access to your primary phone number, add a secondary phone number before you leave for the holidays in the My Profile > Phone Numbers section of your CurrencyFair account.

CurrencyFair wishes you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2021.

- The CurrencyFair Team

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