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Can't wait until someone buys an app for £1 from Ovi Store only to be charged an additional £1.50 in "exchange rate" fees by a bank that sweated beads shuffling a single digit out of one account and multiplying it by an another number (the exchange rate) before depositing the result into another account, the kind of thing an IBM mainframe does in a nanosecond all day and all night.

Aside from the fact that banks charging an "exchange rate fee" for an entirely electronic transaction is pretty abhorrent it's also pretty obvious that Nokia reforming the banks is not going to happen in my lifetime so Nokia getting it's act together and processing sales locally without the need for currency conversion would make a lot more sense and avoid p1ssing off customers left right and center.

And while the possibility of additional charges may be buried in the T&Cs nobody reads those so at least reminding customers at point of sale would be a very good idea.

Offering local processing would also avoid the ridiculous situation where the banks will most likely make more profit out of Ovi than either the developers or Nokia combined.