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Western Union Makes Takeover Offer for MoneyGram
2.6.2020
According to Bloomberg, financial giant Western Union has made an offer to purchase cross-border payments company MoneyGram
Why Crypto Will Not Make Western Union Obsolete
29.5.2019
George Harrap
The text below is an excerpt from The Compendium of Cryptocurrency Remittances by George Harrap, CEO of Bitspark, a bankless money transfer solution utilising blockchain technology.
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It is impossible in the remittance world to ignore Western Union (WU). The solid brand name...
Facebook Reveals Plans of Launching Its Cryptocurrency ‘GlobalCoin’ in 2020
24.5.2019
As per the latest reports doing the rounds since today morning, Facebook is all set to introduce its own digital currency next year. The crypto referred to as ‘GlobalCoin,’ is most likely to hit the market in the 1st quarter of 2020 officially. If everything goes according to the social networking...
International Money Transfer: Western Union vs World Remit vs Bitcoin
19.5.2019
One of the earliest cited use cases for bitcoin was international money transfers. Many believed that bitcoin would disrupt the global remittance market like nothing before because of the digital currency’s ability to process borderless digital cash transactions in a matter of minutes at a much...