Albany BoA domestic and international wire fees: schedule + waiver paths

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Albany BoA customers reach out with the same set of fee questions — monthly maintenance, wire costs, out-of-network ATM, foreign transactions, overdrafts. This page covers each, with BoA's own pricing pages cited and the CFPB 2023 enforcement record on fee practices for context.

Domestic and international wire fees

Bank of America wire transfer fees per their published schedule: roughly $30 per outgoing domestic wire and $45 per outgoing international wire. Incoming wires typically run $15. For a Albany business that sends a handful of vendor wires per month, this adds up to several hundred dollars annually. Mercury offers free domestic wires on most plans; RHO offers free outgoing wires on most tiers. If wire volume is meaningful for your business, the fee differential alone often justifies switching. BoA fee schedule source: https://www.bankofamerica.com/smallbusiness/business-financing/checking-accounts/

Albany context

Albany sits in capital-metro, where business banking customers tend to evaluate fees against alternatives that have shifted toward zero-monthly-fee structures. The BoA picture below is the comparison baseline.

Public regulator record on BoA fees

• CFPB 2023 enforcement order — $250M total — junk fees, double-charged overdraft fees, withheld credit-card rewards, fake accounts.
• CFPB Consumer Complaint Database — Bank of America — public, searchable, tens of thousands of complaints (a large share fee-related).
• BoA business checking fee disclosure — source-of-truth for current published rates. Verify before acting.

If you want to dispute a BoA fee in Albany

1. Pull the statement showing the fee. Screenshot it.
2. Compare against BoA's published fee schedule. If it does not match, document the discrepancy.
3. Request a written explanation through BoA secure message. Save the response.
4. If the explanation is unsatisfactory, file a CFPB complaint at consumerfinance.gov/complaint with the documentation. Free, public, and tends to get a documented response.
5. For overdraft-fee disputes specifically: reference the CFPB 2023 order in your complaint if your situation matches the practices it cited.

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