Originally Posted by Rochard

I come across this problem all the time at Dating Factory with international wires.

Some smaller banks cannot do bank wires and use what is called an intermediary bank to process them. If you use a smaller, local bank, bank wires have to go through a larger bank and then have those funds transferred to your local bank. The larger bank is called the intermediary bank.

However, in my experience, bank wires using an intermediary bank rarely work properly and are rejected.