Money Transfers Newsletter, February 2008

Feature

Q&A with Leon Isaacs: Author of the Remittance Customer Charter

The international and UK press has widely covered the release of the Remittance Customer Charter. Editor Meena Kansal talks to the man behind the Charter, Leon Isaacs, CEO of Developing Market Associates and a member of the UK Remittance Task Force.

EditorSpeak

EditorSpeak: The real amount of international remittances

News

UNIStream Market share in Armenia over 50%

Bank of NY Mellon releases global remittance platform

Citigroup Launches Remittance Platform

Vodafone to launch mobile money transfer service in Afghanistan

Central Bank of India, Thomas Cook close money transfer deal

MoneyGram deal: Thomas H. Lee-Goldman Sachs group fund $710M bailout, debt financing

SingPost first to offer Visa Money Transfer

UNIStream results show 100pc increase over 2006

MoneyGram Announces Multi-Year Agreement With ACE Cash Express

Western Union signs Philippine mobile payment deals

Remittances from Caymans to Jamaica Expected to Double

Money-Services Business Settles with US Justice Department

UK’s Monitise Launches Cross-Border Remittance