Remittance Relief
"[Bitcoin] produces a market that's international, that everyone has access to, regardless of race, religion, creed..." - Amir Taaki. There is a lot of talk recently of the power Bitcoin has in changing the remittance market. A remittance is a transfer of wealth from one person to another, mostly amongst the world's poor. Zach Ramsay of Canadian-based....
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FastCompany’s report revealed that overseas remittance totaled $429 billion in 2016. Some of the largest Remittance markets include China and the Philippines. Already, bitcoin startups have begun to dominate the remittance markets in the two countries, with the Philippines leading bitcoin remittance innovation. Both domestic and international remittance is a massive market within the Philippines. Companies such as Lhuillier and Palawan operate thousands of branches throughout the country, with deeper market penetration in comparison to international remittance companies such as Western....
The 6th annual Remittance & Mobile Money Expo, held today and tomorrow – Feb. 2 and 3 in Lagos, Nigeria, will address the challenges and opportunities in the emerging African remittance market. Billing itself as the largest gathering of stakeholders in the remittance ecosystem serving Africa, the conference will be at the Lagos Oriental Hotel. The theme of the conference, hosted by MobileMoneyAfrica, a resource for mobile financial inclusion, is “lowering transaction cost.” There will be more than 30 speakers. According to MobileMoneyAfrica, Nigeria is the largest remittance....
DigitalBTC, an Australia-based digital payments company, has agreed to form a joint venture company (JVC) to distribute and market a remittance product, AirPocket. The beta launch will begin in the second quarter of this year. DigitalBTC, which is trading on the Australian Securities Exchange as Digital DC Limited, described AirPocket as a disruptive new technology product targeting the significant and established remittance market. The U. S. to Latin America remittance market is estimated to be $84 billion. The joint venture will target the remittance sector in the Latin American and....
The leading bitcoin exchange in Vietnam recently launched a bitcoin remittance service in the country called cash2vn. This will enable users to send funds to their families and friends in Vietnam through the bitcoin network and the cash2vn platform for a fee of $2 per transaction. For now, the bitcoin remittance platform requires that the user have a bank account in Vietnam, although the team is already working on methods to cash out that can be inclusive of those who don't have a Vietnamese bank account. Bitcoin Remittance Trends. In other parts of Asia and in South America, bitcoin....
Shinhan Bank, one of the largest financial institutions in South Korea will begin a remittance service – backed by bitcoin – between Korea and China, starting next month. The Korea-China corridor will soon see the bitcoin remittance service made possible through Hong Kong as an intermediary, a country where digital currency transactions are legally allowed, according to Korean news outlet Pulse. Fundamentally, the remittance operation will see Shinhan Bank transfer value to a digital currency exchange in Hong Kong, which will then further the transaction by transferring the value, in....