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will be able to Send Funds Worldwide via Western Union s Global Financial Network of Bank accounts, Wallets, Cards and Retail, later this year
MUMBAI, India and SINGAPORE, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The United States, the world s largest sender of cross-border consumer-to-consumer payments and India, the world s largest receiver, along with Singapore, will be the first of three countries to benefit from Western Union s linking of its cross-border platform capabilities with Google Pay.
Western Union (NYSE: WU), a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, and Google have teamed up to allow people in the U.S. to access Western Union s highly rated digital user experience from the Google Pay app, helping them to easily make payments to family and friends worldwide with reliability, convenience, and speed.
Google Pay US users can now send money to users in India and Singapore
Google Pay users in the U.S. can now send money to GPay users in India and Singapore, Google said on Tuesday, making its first push into the remittances market.
The company has partnered with Western Union and Wise, both of which have integrated their services into Google Pay. Josh Woodward, director of Product Management at Google, told TechCrunch in an interview that the company is kickstarting its cross-border payments feature with India and Singapore and intends to expand this worldwide by the end of the year.