Tagged: money transfer

April 13, 2020 @ 7:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kristo Käärmann, co-founder and CEO at London-based TransferWise, a privately-held Fintech firm that allows individuals and businesses to send money abroad at affordable and transparent rates, revealed that 25% of the cross-border transfers facilitated by the firm are now instant. Earlier this month, the TransferWise… Read More

March 19, 2020 @ 5:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ripple, a provider of enterprise blockchain solutions for payments, announced on Thursday it has formed a new partnership with Thailand-based digital cross-border money transfer fintech DeeMoney. Ripple reported that through the collaboration, DeeMoney’s platform is now processing live transactions.  Ripple further revealed that DeeMoney is… Read More

March 13, 2020 @ 8:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Online payments company Skrill announced on Friday it is dropping all fees and foreign exchange charges for those using its Skill Money Transfer service to send funds to Italy. Along with the transfer fee drops, there will also be no charges for recipients in Italy…. Read More

January 27, 2020 @ 12:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Remitly, a U.S.-based online money transfer service, announced on Monday it has teamed up with Alipay to enable Remitly customers to send money from their smartphone or computer, and for funds to be received within the Alipay app. The company is claiming to be the… Read More

January 21, 2020 @ 12:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital money transfer service MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI) announced on Tuesday it has formed a new partnership with LuLu Money, a non-banking finance group that specializes primarily in foreign exchange and global money transfers.  MoneyGram reported that through the partnership LuLu Money will utilize the MoneyGram… Read More

December 18, 2019 @ 11:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital money transfer service MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI) announced on Wednesday it has teamed up with fintech Brightwell to enable cruise line crew members to digital send their money home using MoneyGram within the Brightwell app. The duo revealed: “The MoneyGram-Brightwell partnership gives crew members an… Read More

October 14, 2019 @ 2:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp. (NYSE: MCB), the holding company for Metropolitan Commercial Bank, recently announced it has formed a partnership with global provider of money transfer services MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI) to launch a new debit card deposit service designed to simplify deposit, withdrawal and exchange… Read More

June 3, 2019 @ 8:27 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

WorldRemit, a UK based Fintech in the digital money transfer sector, announced on Monday it secured $175 million through its Series D funding round, which was led by existing investors TCV, Accel and Leapfrog Investments. Founded in 2010, WorldRemit describes itself as a global lead-in… Read More

May 1, 2019 @ 1:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

WorldRemit, a UK based Fintech in the digital money transfer sector, announced on Tuesday it has joined forces with MCB Bank (MCB) for digital money transfers to Pakistan. WorldRemit reported that transactions to Pakistan through its website and app grew by 75% in 2018, driven by… Read More

April 18, 2019 @ 8:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

U.S.-based independent mobile remittance company Remitly announced on Thursday it has launched its international money transfer service in France. Customers may now access the Remitly service through its mobile app or website and benefit from a variety of secure and convenient money sending and receiving… Read More

April 14, 2019 @ 9:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital money transfer service MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI) announced last week it has teamed up with fintech KyckGlobal to better serve the large and growing population of gig economy workers in the U.S. by offering cash payments receivables for their work. While sharing details about the… Read More

February 15, 2019 @ 8:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PaySend, a UK-based global payments platform, announced earlier this week it now has more than 500,000 customers. The company also introduced money transfer services to more than 30 European countries.   As previously reported, PaySend was founded in 2015 and describes itself as a UK fintech company… Read More

January 9, 2019 @ 4:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

PaySend, a UK-based global payments platform, has launched a new service, PaySendLink, which allows consumers to send money internationally using just the recipient’s mobile phone number. As previously reported, PaySend was founded in 2015 and describes itself as a UK fintech company and payments disruptor on a… Read More

September 7, 2018 @ 11:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PayPal announced earlier this week it recently surpassed 250 million in the total number of active accounts on its global payments platform. The payments giant reported that this is a very important milestone for its company, and a key marker on its journey to fulfill its… Read More

September 4, 2018 @ 11:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

International money transfer service WorldRemit announced on Tuesday it is launching a new digital service within Africa. According to WorldRemit, the service will make it easier to send and receive money across the continent and will also reduce the cost of sending money across borders. WorldRemit… Read More

August 27, 2018 @ 9:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

LumoXchange, U.S.-based fintech payments company, announced on Monday the launch of its money transfer service to the Philippines. The company reported it has built a platform that allows users to compare exchange rate offers from the leading banks in the Philippines and send money. Users… Read More

August 16, 2018 @ 9:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wyre, a U.S.-based money transfer service, announced this week it has entered into an account transfer agreement for the sale of its retail money transfer business to money transfer firm, WorldFirst. This news comes just after Wyre announced its API was being extended to dapps… Read More

August 13, 2018 @ 10:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Identity verification provider Onfido has formed a partnership with global remittance company TransferGo to help verify the identities of TransferGo’s users.  TransferGo currently offers transfers between nearly 50 countries and recently claimed to be the first remittance company to offer a cryptocurrency trading facility with… Read More

July 25, 2018 @ 12:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI) recently announced it is extending its digital money transfer services in five new countries. According to MoneyGram, customers in Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, and Austria may now send money 24/7 directly to more than two billion bank accounts and mobile wallets or to any MoneyGram location in over 200 countries… Read More

July 9, 2018 @ 10:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fintech unicorn, TransferWise, launched its money transfer services in Hong Kong last week. This news comes just a few weeks after the company launched the services in Argentina. As previously reported, TransferWise converts that money at a better rate and pays the transfer out using local pools… Read More