Send Money from France to Vietnam

Measured on the full cost — the transfer fee plus the exchange-rate margin — Remitly is cheapest on this corridor at €1,000, across the 3 providers we hold checked figures for. The cheapest provider also changes with the amount you send, so compare the final sum that arrives in Vietnamese dongs rather than the headline fee.

At €1,000, Remitly is the cheapest of the 3 providers priced at that amount on this corridor: about €6.99 all in, or 0.70% of the amount sent. Wise is next at about €8.63. That is the fee plus the exchange-rate margin that applied to a transfer of that size — priced at €1,000 specifically, not worked out from a measurement taken at some other amount. It covers a bank transfer; cash pickup and mobile wallet payouts are priced separately. The margins were measured by Wise's comparison service rather than published by the providers themselves, and other providers here may be cheaper and are not priced this way.

Most transfers on this corridor arrive within one to three business days. Paying by debit card is generally faster than a bank transfer, and transfers initiated outside banking hours may not begin processing until the next working day.

Across the providers we compare, the available payout methods are cash pickup and bank deposit. The most widely used options in Vietnam are bank deposit and cash pickup. Bank deposit to a Vietnamese account is normally the cheapest route; cash pickup is widely available through bank branches. Not every provider supports every method, so check the table above before you commit.

No. Remitly and Western Union offer cash pickup in Vietnam, so your recipient can collect the funds with valid photo ID and the transfer reference number. That said, bank deposit and cash pickup generally cost less than cash collection.

Providers rarely give you the mid-market rate — the reference rate you see on Google or Reuters. Instead they add a margin, typically between 0.4% and 4%, and keep the difference. That margin is often larger than the visible transfer fee, which is why a "no fee" service can still be more expensive overall. For EUR to VND, compare the quoted rate against the mid-market rate to see the real spread you are paying.

Yes, provided you use a licensed provider. Every service listed on this page is regulated in France under the ACPR, the supervisor of the Banque de France, which requires safeguarding of customer funds and identity verification. Send only to people you know personally, keep your transfer reference private, and be sceptical of anyone pressuring you to send money urgently to someone you have not met.

Yes. Each provider sets its own transfer limits, which vary by how much identity verification you have completed and how you pay. Larger transfers may require additional documentation such as proof of source of funds. For transfers above roughly €10,000, a specialist foreign-exchange broker will often beat an app on rate.

Wise states no send amount on this corridor. Its table reads "Sending EUR" where its Portuguese, Turkish, Romanian and Polish pages read "Sending 1,000 EUR". A cost with no transfer size attached cannot be turned into a percentage or compared with anything, so no Wise figure appears in the table above. The service is available and the rate is real; only the cost is unverifiable from the page. France has one of the largest Vietnamese communities in Europe, much of it long-settled, which makes this corridor a mix of family support and property or education payments. Those two patterns want different things from a service, and the cheapest option for a monthly hundred euro is rarely the cheapest for an annual ten thousand. Payouts in Vietnamese dong are made against the recipient's identity documents at most institutions, so the name on the transfer has to match exactly. It is a common cause of delay and it sits outside every price comparison.