Visa Canada and RemitBee Team to Simplify Cross-Border Payments

Visa Canada launched a collaboration with remittance-focused FinTech platform RemitBee, according to a Wednesday (May 6) press release.

The partnership is designed to integrate Visa Direct into RemitBee’s cross-border payment platform and facilitate real-time money movement in more than 190 countries and 150 currencies, the release said.

“We built RemitBee as immigrants who understood firsthand what it means to send money home,” RemitBee co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Manos Yoganathan said in the release. “What began as a mission to make cross-border payments simpler has grown into one of Canada’s largest payments platforms. We are proud that a company built by immigrants has become a Canadian success story, and that this union with Visa helps take it even further.”

Last year, remittances sent abroad from Canada exceeded $19 billion, according to the release. These cross-border flows have traditionally been plagued by fragmented systems and high costs for Canada’s immigrant populations. With Visa Direct, RemitBee users can now send money directly to eligible bank accounts, digital wallets and Visa cards around the world in real time.

“At the center of this vision is RemitBee’s role as a centralized payment infrastructure hub, giving credit unions, regional remittance operators and financial partners access to its network through a single trusted integration,” the release said.

Meanwhile, federated data platforms, often associated with architectures like data mesh or distributed analytics, are easing tension in cross-border transactions.

“Instead of centralizing all financial data into a single global warehouse, these systems allow data to remain in local jurisdictions while still being queried, analyzed and governed as part of a unified layer,” PYMNTS reported Monday (May 4). “However, federated data solutions are not a silver bullet. They address only a very specific layer of the cross-border problem, the one surrounding data fragmentation and governance, and not the underlying payment rails behind many longstanding cross-border frictions.”