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technologies are now here and starting to be used or just around the corner for

Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello everyone and welcome to Future Tech Podcast. I'm your host Juliet Lamar and we have

with us today Karim Meiji he is the chief product

officer at Remitley welcome Karim how are you I'm good thanks and thanks

Juliet for having me on the podcast today.

Of course, I'm really excited to learn more about Rometley.

Why don't you go ahead and kick us off and let us know all about the company?

Yeah, so Rometley is focused on disrupting the nearly 600 billion dollar remittance market

globally.

We've been doing this for about six years.

Started with our founder who was living in Kenya at the time that he had

the realization that there was an industry that needed disrupting as he saw on the ground in Kenya the impact of a fairly

antiquated model and approach to sending money internationally.

The challenges that he saw were lack of transparency in pricing, high pricing,

inconsistent money being sent and delivered in ways that the recipients didn't know when funds were

going to arrive.

And so Matt at that time realized that the sort of mobile phone penetration growth occurring

across the globe coupled with technology could really have an impact on disrupting this category of business.

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