Tagged: moneygram

February 17, 2020 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global money transfer service provider MoneyGram has introduced a new service that lets users send payments in real-time, however, the new platform notably doesn’t involve the company’s business partner Ripple (which acquired $30 million in MoneyGram shares at a high premium last year). MoneyGram’s management… Read More

February 12, 2020 @ 8:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital money transfer service MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI) announced on Wednesday the launch of its new service,  MoneyGram FastSend, which allows consumers to send money to a mobile phone number through the MoneyGram website and mobile app.  According to MoneyGram, MoneyGram FastSend is supported by the… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 11:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyGram International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGI), a leading international peer-to-peer (P2P) payments and money transfer service provider, revealed on January 23 that it has teamed up with the Suez Canal Bank, an established financial institution that will allow MoneyGram clients to send funds directly to 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

January 13, 2020 @ 2:41 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital money transfer service MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI) announced on Monday it has formed a new partnership with  EbixCash, an international supplier of on-demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial, healthcare and e-learning industries, to bring enhanced services to millions of consumers across India…. 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

December 1, 2019 @ 8:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI) has completed an investment by Ripple. According to an 8K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ripple has agreed to purchase up to $50 million of common stock and ten-year warrants to purchase Common Stock. On November 22, 2019, an “Additional… 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

September 9, 2019 @ 3:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital money transfer service MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI) announced on Monday it has teamed up with Visa to launch a new debit card service. MoneyGram reported that the money transfer option will allow customers in the U.S. to send money domestically through its mobile app or… Read More

July 19, 2019 @ 1:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital money transfer service MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI) announced on Friday it has formed a new partnership with Korean remittance startup, Sentbe. MoneyGram reported the collaboration between it and Sentbe aligns with MoneyGram’s goal of providing consumers with an expanded range of digital money transfer options…. Read More

June 18, 2019 @ 3:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ripple, a provider of enterprise blockchain solutions for payments, announced it has formed a new strategic partnership with money transfer service, MoneyGram. Ripple has also taken a $50 million stake in MoneyGram in a push to deploy XRP. Ripple reported that through the new collaboration,… 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

August 30, 2018 @ 10:33 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over a month after announcing it was extended its digital money transfer services in five new countries, MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI) announced it has joined forces with GCash to launch a new money transfer service to more than 10 million GCash mobile wallets in the… 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

April 3, 2018 @ 2:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, retail giant Walmart announced the launch of its new global wire service, Walmart2World. The company revealed that four years ago it changed the “money transfer game” with the introduction of Walmart2Walmart, which is a domestic money transfer service that offered lower cost, which… Read More

January 3, 2018 @ 10:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Ant Financial, part of tech conglomerate Alibaba, announced its intent to purchase MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI)  a year ago. The acquisition would have combined MoneyGram’s money transfer network of 2.4 billion bank and mobile accounts with Alibaba’s fast growing global Fintech presence. MoneyGram is currently active in… Read More

April 17, 2017 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Dallas based MoneyGram (NASDAQ:MGI), a global provider of money transfer services, has become quite popular. This past January, Alibaba’s Ant Financial subsidiary announced it had offered the firm $13.25 per share to acquire the company. The two companies had entered into a definitive agreement to… Read More

January 26, 2017 @ 9:45 am By JD Alois  |  

China’s richest man, Jack Ma, has boosted his USA presence with the acquisition of MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI) – a Dallas-based money transfer service. Ant Financial Services Group, part of the fast-growing Alibaba Group and parent of AliPay, has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase MoneyGram at… Read More