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WorldRemit adds Android Pay to mobile remittance app

WorldRemit has added Android Pay to its service, offering a new way for WorldRemit's Android Pay users to send money internationally and reach millions using mobile money accounts, according to a press release.

Launching the global rollout of the service at MoneyConf 2017, WorldRemit will enable Android Pay users to safely and securely send money to more than 112 million mobile money accounts accessible via its network. The integration will make WorldRemit the only remittance provider offering international payments through Android Pay around the globe, according to the release.

"Currently 60 percent of WorldRemit app users are on Android, which is also by far the most popular mobile operating system in the developing world, where two billion people are still unbanked, but critically half a billion use their mobiles as a bank account," Alice Newton-Rex, vice president of product at WorldRemit, said in the release. "This integration with Android Pay is the next logical step of our mobile first approach, and continues our commitment to providing greater financial inclusion."