Finablr, a foreign exchange (forex) company based in the United Arab Emirates, announced this Monday that its brands, and Unimoni, who originally partnered with Ripple last year, are going live with cross-border payments using the blockchain technologies of Ripple.
According to Finablr, the company is further partnering with Ripple to offer cross-border remittances to its clients in Thailand. As , the UAE Exchange, which is one of the world’s largest remittance and forex companies, partnered with RippleNet in 2018 to send and receive cross-border payments.
Previously, the company had also partnered with Siam Commercial Bank, one of the largest banks in Thailand, to provide services on Ripple, with the latest announcement expanding its services.
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Remittance sector is set to grow in 2019
Remittance is a sum of money sent as payment or gift. According to the World Bank, in the last year remittances flow to South Asia has increased by around 13 per cent. Furthermore, Asia is also one of the major recipients of remittances from the workers in the Middle East where Finablr is based.
On a whole, the region is one of the largest contributors to the remittance sector, which means the collaboration between Finablr and Ripple could be huge. Furthermore, the sector is expected to grow in 2019, with global remittances forecast to increase by 3.5 per cent.
For low and middle-income countries, future remittances are projected to climb by 4 per cent to $549 billion in 2019. Global remittances that include flows to high-income countries were up about 10.3 per cent in the past year, reaching $689 billion, which is also expected to grow further this year.
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