Ria Money Transfer

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Ria Money Transfer
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Financial services
Electronic funds transfer
Founded1987;37 years ago (1987)
Headquarters
Buena Park, California
,
United States
Key people
Juan Bianchi
CEO Euronet’s Money Transfer Segment
Products Remittance
Revenue$1.18 billion (2020) [1]
$59.7 million (2020) [1]
Number of employees
4000+ (approx.) (2021)
Parent Euronet Worldwide
Website riamoneytransfer.com

Ria Money Transfer is a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide, Inc., which specializes in money remittances. [2] [3] [4] Ria initiates transfers through a network of agents and company-owned stores located throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa, and online. Ria is one of the big four remittance companies. [5]

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History

Ria has grown to become the second largest money transfer service in the world. [6]

In 2006, Ria was acquired by Euronet Worldwide, Inc., becoming part of its money transfer segment together with XE. [7]

Ria began working with post offices in 2010 and on July 31, 2014, partnered with Postbank, which is owned by the Kenyan government. [8] This allowed customers to send money through any of the bank's 99 branches, or receive it directly into their accounts. [9]

In 2014, the company launched Walmart-2-Walmart Powered by Ria, a Walmart money transfer service within the US. [10] The service allows customers to transfer money to and from more than 4,600 [11] stores at competitive prices. [12]

In 2015, Ria acquired Malaysia based money transfer provider IME. [13]

In 2016, the company expanded its relationship with Walmart to Latin America and partnered with Walmart Chile to offer money transfer services through selected Líder brand supermarkets. [14] In 2019, Ria and Walmart partnered with Paypal’s Xoom to introduce domestic money transfer services. Xoom expanded to 60 countries in the deal with Ria. [15]

As of 2020, Ria’s money transfer services are available at over 470,000 locations in 159 countries, online, and through their app. [1]

Ria continues to expand into Latin America with the support of a joint venture between parent company Euronet and Spain's Prosegur Cash. [16]

The Central Bank of Nigeria listed Ria as one of their approved international money transfer operators for diaspora remittances in March 2021. [17] First Bank of Nigeria also works with Ria to bring remittances into the country. [18]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank released a report detailing the importance of remittances to provide a critical lifeline for vulnerable populations. [19] [20]

Ria has international presence as a key company for sending remittances in Belarus [21] and as one of the companies that pays the most for sending remittances from the US to Mexico. [22]

Products and services

Ria Money Transfer App

The Ria Money Transfer App is available on Android and iOS in the United States, Canada, and in most countries in Europe. With over 1,000,000 downloads, the app allows customers to send money through Ria’s global network. [23] [24]

Mobile Money

Customers can send and receive money through Ria Money Transfer’s mobile wallet network. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest remittance costs, but it’s also the most developed when it comes to mobile wallets. In a partnership with Gambia's mobile money platform Qmoney, Ria customers can make fund transfers to Qmoney customers using their mobile phones. [25]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Remittance</span> Money transfer by a foreign worker to their home country

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Euronet Worldwide</span> Electronic payments company

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">M-Pesa</span> Mobile banking service

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Easypaisa</span> Pakistani mobile wallet service

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International money transfers made by migrant workers and immigrants sending a portion of their earnings to their families in their country of origin are known as remittances. Remittances are an important aspect of the global economy, totaling an estimated $601 billion (USD) for the year 2015. The United States is currently the largest source of international remittances in the world, sending a total of $148 billion in 2017. Mexico received the largest portion of these remittances, accounting for more than $30 billion USD. making the U.S.-Mexico remittance corridor one of the largest in the world. With the exception of the 2008 global financial crisis, remittances sent from the U.S. have been consistently climbing for the past half century. This major increase in remittances can be partially attributed to the larger population of immigrants and migrant workers, as well as to increasing globalization in the financial and money markets. China and India are also major recipients of U.S. remittances, and are the top two recipients of remittances globally.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">EcoCash</span>

EcoCash, is a mobile phone-based money transfer, financing and microfinancing service, launched in 2011 by Econet Wireless, for its customers in Zimbabwe. The platform has been targeted by the Zimbabwe government. The company's headquarters is in the EcoCash Holdings HQ along Liberation Legacy Road in Borrowdale, a suburb of Harare, the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe.

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