Banking
posted by Wandering Soul in Azores forum
I would recomment BPI. We tried to open an account with a couple of the other banks and encountered unnecessary bureaucracy. Having a branch of the same bank in your home country is irrelevant, I have found when I lived in France. Using a service like Transferwise is very easy. You can hold account with multi-currencies with it and it makes transfers between your bank in the States and your bank in Sao Miguel really easy.