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Bank Systems & Technology August 17, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan	ICICI Bank Captures Top Share of Top Remittance Market by Catering to Migrant Workers' Diverse Requirements India's second-largest bank, ICICI, handles more than one-fifth of the money coming into India from its migrant workers all over the globe.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Dilip Ratha	Remittances: A Lifeline for Development Governments have often offered incentives to increase remittance flows and to channel them to productive uses. But such policies are more problematic than efforts to expand access to financial services or reduce transaction costs.
Finance & Development June 1, 2007 Gupta et al.	Making Remittances Work for Africa If handled well, migrant transfers in sub-Saharan Africa can reduce poverty and connect small savers to the formal financial sector.
Finance & Development June 2011	Lowering the Cost of Sending Money Home Reducing transaction costs can put more money in the pockets of migrants and their families.
Bank Systems & Technology May 8, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz	For Money Transfers, Going Solo Not the Best Route for Banks A new study says banks are better off teaming up with existing money transmitters to succeed in remittance business.
Bank Technology News November 2009 John Adams	Online Remittance is a CRM Club for Wells Remittance schemes can span a range of technology capabilities and access barriers, but the opportunity exists for banks to simplify both execution and fraud prevention by using the Web channel.
Bank Systems & Technology August 30, 2005 Ivan Schneider	The 5 Percent Solution Achieving the 5 percent IT budget savings for banks will require an extended reach of SWIFTNet beyond its current functions into as-of-yet untrodden pathways.
IDB America October 2001 Peter Bate	A river of gold The money that migrants send home buoys families and bolsters national economies. Can it do more?
Bank Systems & Technology May 21, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	J.P. Morgan Offering ISO 20022 Standard-based Payments and Reporting J.P. Morgan's treasury services unit is providing clients with ISO standard to supply richer remittance information and automation.
Fast Company April 2012 Irin Carmon	Tigo Helps Remittances Go Mobile In countries like Guatemala, remittances from migrant workers in the U.S. are critical to the economy. Tigo, an international telecom, has a unique plan to use mobile banking to simplify a trying process.
IDB America March 2004 Charo Quesada	Unlocking the hidden potential of remittances How to multiply the benefits of the ever-increasing flow of money sent by immigrants to relatives in Latin America and the Caribbean
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 David Fairlamb	Can Western Union Keep On Delivering? Wiring money overseas has been a hugely profitable business. But now, rivals are elbowing in, driving the fees down.
Bank Systems & Technology August 21, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz	SWIFT's Exceptions and Investigations Automation Push Lacks Widespread Adoption Although some banks have signed on to SWIFT's pilot program, so far it lacks the numbers to make E&I automation viable for the industry.
Bank Systems & Technology February 11, 2004 Judy Ward	Sterling Helps Wachovia Manage SWIFTNet Migration Bank gets its FileAct together with new SWIFT messaging system
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Bank Systems & Technology September 27, 2004 Ivan Schneider	GE Brings SWIFT to Life Corporate treasury seeks automation, information and simplification through adoption of financial messaging standards.
Bank Technology News December 2008 Rebecca Sausner	ATMs: Taking on Western Union Startup company Privier Inc. is developing a system that allows bank customers to send cash around the globe for pick up at any participating ATM, even without an ATM card.
Bank Systems & Technology March 27, 2008 Nancy Feig	Banks Adopting More Strategies to Court Underbanked Banks' interest in helping the underbanked isn't entirely altruistic. While the average account of an underbanked person may not seem substantial, as a group, the underbanked spend at least $13 billion per year on non-bank financial transactions.
IDB America November 2002 Paul Constance	The high cost of solidarity Why many Latin American immigrants are paying too much to send money back home, and what can be done about it
Bank Technology News September 2008 Glen Fest	Banks offer unified corporate portals From spend management tools to SWIFT network integration, money-center banks are quickly evolving into the one-stop corporate payments shop that their treasury clients have long demanded.
Bank Systems & Technology October 1, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz	SWIFT Program Aims to Standardize/Streamline Service Process SWIFT has played a vital role in streamlining the transmission of payments messages and data among banks. However, one piece of the process still needs fine-tuning - the exceptions and investigations messages that accompany payments when issues arise.
Bank Technology News September 2002 Karen Krebsbach	Following The Money Banks are gunning for a larger share of the $9.2 billion wired home annually by Mexican nationals in the U.S. But the Mexican government, with its own remittance plan, could be the dark horse in this race.
Bank Technology News July 2008 Glen Fest	How Will Payments Ride Rails? When mobile payments become an everyday reality for banks - and few forecast otherwise - experts say there will be crucial business-line decisions on the suitability of ACH, ATM or card association networks for particular payments.
Bank Technology News February 2004 Michael Sisk	The Rush To Fill c2it's Void While the closing of Citigroup's long-struggling c2it online money transfer service in November caught a lot of headlines, it was but a single move on the global on-line payments chess board. It's a game that's heating up fast, particularly on the international front.
U.S. Banker May 2009 Maria Aspan	If You Can't Beat 'Em, Might as Well Join 'Em Though some bankers are encouraging the industry to compete against remittance specialists, U.S. Bancorp says it makes more sense to continue working with such firms.
Bank Technology News November 2006 Glen Fest	Corporate Payments: Easing, Expanding Use of E-Signatures A double digital signature pilot from Citigroup and IdenTrust may prove a turning point in the quest to ease corporate treasury headaches and expand the transaction banking business.
Bank Systems & Technology September 27, 2004 Ivan Schneider	Strategic Milestones Lazaro Campos, Head of the Banking Industry Division, SWIFT (La Hulpe, Belgium)
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Finance & Development December 2009 Ratha et al.	Remittances in Development Remittances, funds repatriated by migrant workers to family and friends back home, provide the most tangible link between migration and development.
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz	Corporates Want Standardized Remittance Data in Wire Transfers Businesses would be more likely to choose wire transfers for electronic payments if they were provided with more-standardized remittance information with wire payments, according to a joint study by The Clearing House Payments Company and the Federal Reserve Bank.
Bank Systems & Technology September 17, 2008 Katherine Burger	False A global partnership agreement simplifies SWIFTNet implementation for customers using Microsoft technology.
Bank Systems & Technology August 30, 2005 Maria Bruno-Britz	Commercial Payments: From Many, One All the major players - banks, corporations, regulators and vendors - are attempting to standardize and simplify the commercial payments process. But, everyone seems to have a different idea as to the best way to do so.
Bank Systems & Technology September 24, 2010 Penny Crosman	BofA Tests Online Banking, Online Payments for Corporate Clients Online global payment hub expected to go live with entire customer base in the first quarter of 2011.
Bank Systems & Technology December 11, 2009 Greg MacSweeney	SWIFT's Restructuring in North America Includes Layoffs SWIFT's Commercial group reduces staff as part of plan to cut $132 million in global operating expenses.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005	Sending Money Home: Trends in Migrant Remittances Over the past fifteen years, international migrant remittances have become increasingly prominent -- with $167 billion flowing to developing countries. Survey data show that remittances have reduced the poverty headcount ratio significantly in several low-income countries.
Bank Technology News May 2006 Glen Fest	Medical Banking: Paper Processing Is No Rx For Payments Hospitals and insurers still don't have electronic remittance issues settled despite 10-year-old HIPAA standards. Seizing the market opportunity, banks are stepping into the void.
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CIO November 1, 2005 Allan Holmes	The Four (Not Three, Not Five) Principles of Managing Expectations CIO Joe Eng set new performance standards for his IT department, negotiated technical requirements with demanding business partners, calmed nervous end users and built a $500 million global network by following four simple principles.
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U.S. Banker July 2008 Karen Krebsbach	Waiting for the Call Cellphone banking is emerging as an important link that could bring the most basic financial services to the globe's billions of unbanked cellphone users.
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IDB America July 2003 Charo Quesada	Do it with plastic Electronic transactions and bank accounts for emigrants
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