{"id":111888,"date":"2019-03-20T09:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T01:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=239956"},"modified":"2019-03-20T09:20:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T01:20:59","slug":"western-union-expands-mobile-play-with-thunes-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/20\/western-union-expands-mobile-play-with-thunes-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Union expands mobile play with Thunes deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tInternational remittance giant Western Union inked a deal with financial technology company Thunes to improve its abilities to send funds to mobile wallets in emerging markets.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement means users of Western Union\u2019s network of agents around the world will be able to transfer cash directly to mobile wallets provided by companies connected to Thunes&#8217; network.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the partners said the deal would enable greater financial access for consumers in developing markets by offering services direct to mobile wallets or bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Western Union global head of account payout network Sobia Rahman said: \u201cOur goal is to make digital money transfer services more accessible, with a specific focus on enabling mobile transactions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thunes is a rebranded segment of Singapore-based financial technology company TransferTo, which runs a remittance hub focused on providing access to mobile wallets in developing markets. It has previously signed a number of deals with operators and payment processing companies [1].<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/money\/news-money\/millicom-strikes-hubbing-deal-with-transferto\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International remittance giant Western Union inked a deal with financial technology company Thunes to improve &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/money\/news-money\/western-union-expands-mobile-play-with-thunes-deal\/\">Western Union expands mobile play with Thunes deal<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/20\/western-union-expands-mobile-play-with-thunes-deal\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,2047,3925,3926,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-t6E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111889,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111888\/revisions\/111889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}