Travel Currency Guide is written by Steve and Christine Meyer, a husband and wife team who have spent the last two decades traveling the world while building careers in banking. Every country, city, and ATM guide on this site is informed by both firsthand travel experience and a working understanding of how international payments, card networks, and foreign exchange actually function behind the scenes.
Steve Meyer
Country Guides and ATM Guides
Steve has spent 20 years traveling the world, from ATM hunting in Buenos Aires to Seven Bank runs in Tokyo, and brings 20+ years of banking experience to every guide he writes. His focus is the mechanics of how money actually moves abroad: card networks, withdrawal limits, foreign transaction fees, dynamic currency conversion, and the gap between official and parallel exchange rates.
On Travel Currency Guide, Steve writes the country guides and the deep-dive ATM guides. If a page tells you which bank to use in Reykjavik or how to avoid the worst ATMs in Cairo, Steve wrote it.
Christine Meyer
City Guides and Travel Blog
Christine has spent 20 years traveling internationally and pairs that experience with 20+ years working in banking. Her focus is the on-the-ground money questions you only learn by being in a city: which neighborhoods accept cards, where cash is still king, how locals tip, and which exchange shops give honest rates versus tourist-trap markups.
On Travel Currency Guide, Christine writes the city guides and the travel blog. If a page walks you neighborhood by neighborhood through Buenos Aires or compares debit cards for an upcoming trip, Christine wrote it.
How We Write These Guides
Every guide on Travel Currency Guide is built from a combination of personal travel experience, bank and card-network research, and ongoing updates as fees, exchange rates, and ATM networks change. We do not take payments to recommend specific banks or ATMs. We do earn affiliate commission on a small set of clearly disclosed partners (Wise, CEI Currency Exchange, Surfshark), and those partnerships never determine which methods we rank highest. See our affiliate disclosure for the full list.
Contact
Spotted an outdated fee or a bank that no longer accepts foreign cards? We update guides regularly and welcome corrections. Reach us through the contact form on our homepage.