Research and Markets: A SWIFT Disruption? Bitcoin and Peer-to-Peer Models Challenge the Remittance Business
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/vjbz32/a_swift) has announced the addition of the "A SWIFT Disruption? Bitcoin and Peer-to-Peer Models Challenge the Remittance Business"report to their offering.
New Research Looks At Potential For Bitcoin And Peer-To-Peer Models To Drive Down Costs Of Cross-Border Remittances
Cross-border remittances are expensive, especially for those who can least afford it to be: the unbanked and the underbanked. For Bitcoin enthusiasts, this represents one of the digital currency's most important use cases. By bypassing the expensive fees and onerous regulatory requirements of international correspondent banking channels, the backbone of global money transmission today, Bitcoin-backed remittance evangelists claim they will both do good and make a profit.
The other model that seeks to displace traditional consumer remittance service providers uses peer-to-peer algorithms to match individuals with reciprocal currency needs across borders. TransferWise, one of the pioneers of this model, promises to charge a fraction of what banks do today to move money between countries.
The research report, A SWIFT Disruption? Bitcoin and Peer-to-Peer Models Challenge the Remittance Business, analyzes the value proposition offered by these new models by focusing on two specific remittance corridors, U.S.-Philippines and U.S.-India. It analyzes data on total costs for different transaction sizes and compares these to incumbent competitors.
What's common to both these disruptive models and what separates them from the incumbents in the consumer remittance space is that neither relies on the international correspondent banking channels, which are underpinned by SWIFT, a secure financial messaging system, in order to effect the movement of monetary value across borders.
For established consumer remittance behemoths like Western Union and MoneyGram and for banks that generate substantial revenues from their wire transfer business aimed at corporate and affluent consumers, these challengers may be easy to dismiss either because their business model is unproven (as in the case of Rebit) or their market share is still fairly limited (as in the case of TransferWise). The history of disruptive innovation in the last half-century, however, suggests that dismissing potentially game-changing technologies as unsuited to present needs is a sure way to be rendered obsolete in the future, comments Nikhil Joseph Analyst, author of the report.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Executive Summary
2. Introduction
3. Key Trends in International Consumer Remittances
4. How Money Moves: SWIFT and Correspondent Banking Explained
5. Bypassing Banks: Bitcoin and Peer-to-Peer Remittances
6. Case Studies in Consumer Remittance Innovation
7. Conclusion
Companies Mentioned
- BitPesa
- Currency Cloud
- CurrencyFair
- Rebit
- Remitly
- Ripple
- TransferWise
- Western Union
- WorldRemit
- Xoom
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