Sponsors

SWIFT

SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative through which the financial world conducts its business operations with speed, certainty and confidence. More than 9,700 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 209 countries trust us every day to exchange millions of standardised financial messages.

SWIFT’s role is in the financial industry is two-fold:

SWIFT provides a global message communication platform with products and services that allow our customers to connect and exchange financial information securely and reliably.
SWIFT also acts as the catalyst that brings the financial community together to work collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and consider solutions to issues of mutual interest.

SWIFT enables its customers to automate and standardise financial transactions, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating inefficiencies from their operations. By using SWIFT customers can also create new business opportunities and revenue streams.

SWIFT has its headquarters in Belgium and has offices in the world's major financial centres and developing markets. SWIFT provides additional products and associated services through Arkelis N.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of SWIFT, the assets of which were acquired from SunGard in 2010.

SWIFT does not hold funds nor does it manage accounts on behalf of customers, nor does it store financial information on an on-going basis.

EastNets

EastNets is a leading provider of global compliance and payment solutions and services with over 1,000 customers in 120 countries. EastNets provides Compliance Solutions including anti-money laundering and anti-fraud; payment and transaction management solutions; Resilient SWIFT Solutions for SWIFT message reporting, duplicate detection management, disaster recovery, and outsourced SWIFT connectivity with its SWIFT Service Bureau; and Mobile Remittances Solutions enabling secure, compliant mobile remittances. EastNets is headquartered in Dubai with 16 offices across Continental Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

Thomson Reuters

World-Check is part of the Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk and Compliance division and the Accelus suite of products. World-Check offers services effective at revealing risk that can be difficult to find. Our risk and remediation programme is used by more than 5,400 organisations in over 150 countries to meet their compliance obligations and protect the value of their reputation.

Our services include Anti Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), Politically Exposed Person (PEP) screening, transaction monitoring and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD). World-Check services extend into areas such as fraud prevention, government intelligence and enforcement, identity authentication and background screening.

The Accelus suite of solutions is designed to address governance, risk and compliance challenges faced by the board room, and by legal, compliance, audit, and risk management professionals. Besides World-Check, the Accelus suite includes leading solutions provided by the heritage businesses of Complinet, Oden, Paisley, West’s Capitol Watch, Westlaw Compliance Advisor, Westlaw Business and EDGARfilings.

Thomson Reuters Accelus helps organisations of all sizes, across all sectors, to manage their risk exposure and accelerate their business at every step.

For more information, visit: accelus.thomsonreuters.com

TransferTo

TransferTo is a Global Airtime Remittance Hub that interconnects mobile operators’ prepaid systems to deliver end to end cross border top-up services. TransferTo is the only fast, convenient and reliable solution enabling the transfer of small amounts of value in the form of prepaid mobile credits, the ideal lowcost, high value complement to cash remittances. TransferTo has been designed for migrants and travellers, who can now remotely recharge the prepaid phones of their loved ones back home from their mobile phones, the Internet or at a retail location. TransferTo is a must have Value Added Service for Mobile Network Operators, Retailers, Money Transfer Operators and Financial Institutions targeting the ethnic market segment. With a global reach over five continents,TransferTo is the leader in international prepaid airtime remittances, and enables real time prepaid top-up transfers to over 230 partner Mobile Network Operators in 80 countries, reaching 3.6 billion prepaid users.

TransferTo is part of Ingenico (Euronext: FR0000125346 - ING) the world’s leading provider of payment solutions, with over 15 million terminals deployed in more than 125 countries. Its 3,500 employees worldwide support retailers, banks and service providers to optimize and secure their electronic payments solutions, develop their offer of services and increase their point of sales revenue.

For more information, visit www.transfer-to.com

RemitONE

RemitONE is the leading provider of end-to-end, multi-agent, multi-currency and multi-region money transfer software solutions for banks, MTOs and a variety of small, medium and large payment institutions and other businesses.

Our multichannel solutions empower you to send and receive money flexibly via Agents, ATMs, Bank Branches, EFTPOS terminals, Mobile Phones, Prepaid Cards and Websites.

Our Management team comprises of highly experienced professionals from Business, Technology and Finance backgrounds. We are currently involved in designing a number of groundbreaking multichannel remittance technology solutions for a number of important industry players in this rapidly evolving space.

Headquartered in London, UK, we have a global presence with Reseller Offices in N & S America, West Africa, Middle East and SE Asia.

We work with established players in the remittance industry and are the exclusively recommended money transfer software systems provider of FXCompared.com, the leading UK based remittance price comparison site. We also work with PIPA Solutions to promote security and compliance in the remittance industry.

Our flagship product, R1 MTMS, is used by prominent banks and MTOs operating in various corridors around the world. Our solutions are also used by banks in the Singapore – Bangladesh corridor which, according to the World Bank, is the world’s most cost-effective corridor in terms of remittance costs to remitters and beneficiaries.

We are an ISV and we also provide consulting, bespoke development and, above all, networking services. Our R1 Community brand is a network of our clients, partners and resellers from across the world. We connect you to important industry professionals and leading banks and MTOs already on our money transfer platforms from key corridors worldwide, helping you instantly tap into new markets and expand your business.

Our clients include AB Bank, Agrani Bank, Banco do Brasil, Bank Asia, EastNets, Express Union, Kaah Express, Real Transfer, Royal Exchange, Starpay, United Commercial Bank, Unity Link and many more.

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