At this year's Global Money Transfer Summit, our CEO Mike Laven talks international payments, up and coming markets and how and innovation companies are coming together with the larger players to bring a seamless cross border payment system to businesses and consumers.
5. Whatβs the problem?
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Controlled by banks who run in fear of regulators
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Old infrastructure that doesn'tβt keep up with
increasing flows
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Regulatory overhead + old technology = high prices
and bad services
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Consumers and small business pay the price
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6. Whatβs the way out
Dramatically reduce cost
Take out friction
Increase transparency
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7. The Currency Cloud
β’ Fixed cost--converting FX from brokerage to service
β’ Infrastructure for the next generation
β’ Basis points, not percentages
β’ FX everywhereβeasy to integrate via API
β’ Full price transparency
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8. Sample of Our Customers
Hi-Volume Payments
100βs payments / day
$100-$5,000
Local pay-out / pay-in
API
Hi-Value Payments
Client
1-10 payments / day
$50k-$1m
SWIFT
Apps
Customers
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Infrastructure
End-Users
9. The Currency Cloud
β’ $4 Billion per year run-rate of payments
β’ Currently processing 10,000 payments/month growing to
50,000 in 2014
β’ 100 direct customerβs and 50,000 channel customers
β’ Global banking network
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10. Hereβs the way to do all those things
New Money Transfer
Companies
New Digital Platforms
New Partnerships
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11. βWe make 1% of the value of each
transaction, but if we get one transaction wrong it
could cost us over $100m in lawyer fees and $12bn of lost business. For ten bucks, whoβs going to
risk that?
Big banks have a role to play but itβs not bringing
the people from a remote village into mainstream
banking β thatβs a job for another type of
institution. Regulation is against us, the market is
against us, reality is against us.β
(Financial Services Club Blog, June 2010)
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Mike Laven background What I will talk about: topical, then TCC, then priciplesWhy do we need innovation
Global money transfer growing massively---get more statsNorth South
Note that the B2B money transfer business is 50X the remittances businessBut all we usually here aboutAnd when Barclays shut down small transfer business its both poor people and small business that suffers
All firctionless, transparent and low cost
This is what the banks says about itβlet me read. Bank was caught between two important global priorities: Open markets to increase competition, increase access and bring down fees and protect against reputational riskWhatβs the bigger picture