Cashaa, Uber of Money Transfers, Revolutionizes Cash Remittances to Africa
Another disruptive technology powered by the Blockchain is set to completely eliminate the outrageously high cost of remittances to Africa. Coin Telegraph Spoke to Kumar Gaurav, Cashaa’s co-founder & CEO, about how the application can solve Africa’s exorbitant cash transfer transaction costs. On average it costs 10-12% to wire cash to Africa, where there is an estimated 80% of the population without access to banking. This is compounded by the lack of a transparent exchange rate. Needless to say many African households depend on remittances from the diaspora. In fact, in some countries....
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Nigeria is once again Sub Sahara Africa’s biggest recipient of remittances into the region where the money transfers went up by 6.2 percent to $45 billion, a new World Bank report has shown.
The Impact of Nigerian Policies on Remittances
According to the November 17, 2021 press release, this increase in the value of funds sent is in fact a rebound from the total remittances that were sent by Nigerians in the corresponding period last year. The statement partly attributes this increase to measures that were introduced by the country’s monetary authorities in the....
New cash-to-cash remittance company, Cashaa, ends its three months testing period and claims to have a success as it plans to fully go live. According to co-Founder and CEO at Cashaa, Kumar Gaurav, the company started their trading platform BTC2BID to test and validate their model on April 3, after which a London office was established about two months later, while the development centre remains in Mumbai, India. Strictly peer to peer transactions. Gaurav tells Cointelegraph that Cashaa is a peer to peer cash remittance company, which involves a cryptocurrency traders network to receive....
Cashaa , the London-based p2p marketplace, has announced that the company is preparing to launch its services in India and Nigeria next week. The formal launch scheduled for January 18 will see the company bring its unique zero-fee cash transfer services to cash senders and recipients in the two countries. Cashaa’s founder and CEO Kumar Gaurav had last year noted the problem with country-to-country bitcoin remittances. He had explained the hassle of going through the exchanges twice by giving the example of conducting U.S to Ghana remittances, where you have to first change your fiat....