The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said that remittances of Egyptians working abroad increased 11.6% in August 2021 to reach 2….
On 16 and 17 June 2021, practitioners from the public and private sectors gathered virtually for the seventh Global Forum on…
Ria Money Transfer, a business segment of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. and global leader in the cross-border money transfer indust…
Western Union is teaming up with major financial institutions (FIs) in Africa to make digital cross-border money transfers an…
African cross-border fintech start-up Chipper Cash has brought its services to the South African market, starting with a free…
Since the launch of mobile money in the 2000s, the GSMA has received hundreds of requests for country-level insights into the…
Global adoption of cryptocurrencies has soared across low-, middle- and high-income countries in recent years. Regulators wor…
CNBC discusses El Salvador’s new bitcoin wallet, which allows for cross-border, virtually instantaneous, zero-fee transaction…
Wide adoption of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in cross-border payments and settlements will be credit negative for…
El Salvador will on Tuesday become the first country in the world to recognize bitcoin as legal tender, a move President Nayi…
Western Union Co is resuming money-transfer services to Afghanistan, the company said on Thursday, after suspending its opera…
This paper provides an early assessment of the dynamics and drivers of remittances during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a newl…
Overseas Pakistanis continued to remit record money over $2 billion for the 14th consecutive month in July, the first month o…
Fintech start-ups are finally getting traction in their mission to disrupt banking. Remittances — defined as smaller cross-bo…
As emerging markets around the world continue their recovery from Covid-19, remittances are playing a key role in supporting…
Africa’s appetite for digital currencies is growing significantly. Private cryptocurrency providers are also increasing on th…
Two major U.S. money-transfer services have suspended payments into Afghanistan, and American banks are more closely scrutini…
Over the last decade, the mobile money industry has grown stronger and stronger, with Sub-Saharan Africa as the main engine b…
The Center for Financial Inclusion announces the Financial Inclusion Week from 1-4 November 2021, and invites proposals for t…
Remittances for about 360 million dollars were sent by migrants from the United States to their relatives in the Yucatan Peni…
WorldRemit has launched its money transfer services to local customers in Malaysia via its app or web platform. The digital c…
As economies around the world continue to reel from the effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, global remittances have…
The Bank of Ghana has entered a partnership with a German firm to pilot the first general- purpose central bank digital curre…
Despite hosting multiple countries with some of the highest ‘unbanked’ populations across the world, translating to approxima…
Over the next 5 years, the global remittance industry is set to be worth just under $1 trillion. For developing countries tha…
As emerging markets around the world continue their recovery from Covid-19, remittances are playing a key role in supporting…
Troisième tour de l’Appel à propositions national 2021 (Maroc) – Soutenir les transferts de fonds en temps de crise en Afriq…
MobileRemit Africa will help to accelerate the digitalization of mobile remittances by addressing the knowledge gaps on the u…
Leveraging the impact of remittances to spur inclusive development in Kenya Recent data from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK)…
The Financing Facility for Remittances (FFR) of IFAD is pleased to announce the second round of National Calls for Proposals…
By Andrew Kulankash, IAMTN What better way to start the year than the news that diaspora remittances have crossed the Kes. 30…
In a three-year pilot between 2017 and 2020, supported by grant funding from the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Dev…
The Financing Facility for Remittances (FFR) of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is pleased to ann…
Session I – Response through innovation and adaptation Discussants: Veronica Studsgaard, CEO, IAMTN Nika Naghavi, Data &…
Five questions to Mr. Mamadou Lamine Gueye, Director General of CAURIE Microfinance Sénégal, on the most recent trends about…