I left Switzerland about five years ago for the EU and would now, belatedly, like to close my Freizuegigkeitskonto. For this I need to provide the Swiss pension fund with my bank account details / IBAN to send the franc-denominated money to (that I will then convert to EUR).
I don’t have a CHF account anymore , so need to open one now only for this transfer. However, this is proving to be more complicated than I anticipated:
Retail banks will not open a bank account for a single transfer. I looked at Transferwise and Payoneer where they offer personal multicurrency accounts, but not in CHF. With Revolut and Interactive Brokers you can receive CHF, but as far as I can tell these are pooled accounts in the company’s name, not "personal" IBAN’s.
I cannot be the first person to encounter this issue, but cannot find a solution. Any suggestions are much appreciated.