BT Money Hacks2 Sep 2019

S1E53: How fintech helps you with cheaper and faster money transfers overseas: Money Hacks Ep 53

Money Hacks Ep 53: How fintech helps you with cheaper and faster money transfers overseas

9:43 mins

Synopsis: In this podcast series on alternate Mondays, The Business Times and The Straits Times break down actionable financial tips.

This episode is aimed at how best to transfer your money abroad, and in cheaper ways.

Entrepreneur Kiyan Foroughi comes on the show to talk about his own personal experience about money transfer woes with banks and why he uses new fintech services like TransferWise to save on costs and speed besides getting better transparency.

He has business investments and property mortgages overseas, and needs to transfer money to family members around the world.

Mr Nilan Peiris - another guest on the show - is the London-based vice-president for growth for TransferWise, which has 1,600 staff members and about 150 in Singapore, and is also regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

He answers the following:

1. What are cross-border money transfer services and why do they save their customers money?

2. How you can save up to 10 times on the cost of sending a sum of money from Singapore to the UK, Europe or Australia.

3. How instant payment - thanks to fintech - means that customers can send money to pay for a leaky roof repair in London for example, within 20 seconds.

Produced by: Chris Lim, Ernest Luis & Lee Kim Siang

Edited by: Adam Azlee

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