Moneygram news and trends

MoneyGram to Launch Non-Custodial Digital Wallet for Cross-Border Payments
Cross-border Payments // September 26, 2023

MoneyGram plans to launch a non-custodial digital wallet that will offer new ways to send and receive cross-border payments. The wallet is set to debut in the first quarter of 2024 and will allow users to seamlessly move from fiat currency to digital currency and back...

Digital Wallets and Networks Shake Up the $630 Billion Global Remittance Market
Payment Methods // May 25, 2023

The global remittance market — where hundreds of billions of dollars flow across borders annually — is being reshaped by digital disruption. Late last year, the World Bank estimated that remittances last year grew by 5% in 2022, to $626 billion. Generally speaking, remittances are...

MoneyGram Receives Final Regulatory Approval for Previously Announced Sale
Acquisitions // May 04, 2023

MoneyGram has received the final regulatory approval needed for its sale to Madison Dearborn Partners. Having received approval from the Reserve Bank of India, the companies now expect the previously announced transaction to close on or before June 1, MoneyGram said in a Thursday (May...

MoneyGram Pushes Back Expected Date of Planned Sale
Acquisitions // May 01, 2023

MoneyGram has pushed back the expected date of its planned sale. The firm and the intended buyer, venture capital firm Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP), now expect to close the merger “late in the second quarter of 2023,” MoneyGram said in its quarterly report released Friday...

Interviews & Exclusives
Real-Time Payments Are Ready, But Much of the World Isn’t

October 25, 2022
The cost, time and experience upgrade that digital payments promise cross-border senders and receivers may be crystal clear to some, but it hasn’t happened yet. Even though there’s every reason to get it done with all speed, holdouts abound in parts of the world that still love to deal in cash. Diving into this complex […]

MoneyGram CEO: 2019 Is The ‘Year Of The Consumer’

February 12, 2019
Restructuring efforts continue at MoneyGram, and — amid a tougher compliance environment — the company missed Wall Street expectations as sales declined. However, bright spots included a continued embrace of...

MoneyGram And Visa Team To Deliver Real-Time Global P2P

July 24, 2018
MoneyGram and Visa announced today (July 24) that they have partnered to deliver real-time digital disbursements to MoneyGram customers using Visa’s push payments platform, Visa Direct. Launching in October in...

As Goes The MoneyGram Deal, So Goes China, U.S. Tech Collaboration?

January 05, 2018
A pretty good songster named Paul McCartney sang once that “in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” To shift that a bit for...

Quick Reads
Trustly and MoneyGram Launch Cardless Cross-Border Payments in Europe

March 20, 2024
Trustly and MoneyGram International have partnered to enable millions of MoneyGram users in Europe to make cardless international money transfers. With the service enabled by this collaboration, users can pay directly from their bank accounts when sending international money transfers through MoneyGram Online (MGO), the companies said in a Wednesday (March 20) press release. This service is […]

MoneyGram to Launch Non-Custodial Digital Wallet for Cross-Border Payments

September 26, 2023
MoneyGram plans to launch a non-custodial digital wallet that will offer new ways to send and receive cross-border payments. The wallet is set to debut in the first quarter of 2024...

MoneyGram Receives Final Regulatory Approval for Previously Announced Sale

May 04, 2023
MoneyGram has received the final regulatory approval needed for its sale to Madison Dearborn Partners. Having received approval from the Reserve Bank of India, the companies now expect the previously...

MoneyGram Pushes Back Expected Date of Planned Sale

May 01, 2023
MoneyGram has pushed back the expected date of its planned sale. The firm and the intended buyer, venture capital firm Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP), now expect to close the merger...