Dr. Bello Moussa, Director of Innovation and Industries Relations Huawei(Right) and Alix Murphy, Director of Partnerships WorldRemit(left).

DAR-ES-SALAAM, (CAJ News) – WORLD-REMIT and Huawei have announced a partnership to accelerate growth of low cost mobile-to-mobile money transfers to Africa.WorldRemit’s international money transfer service available to all partners of Huawei’s mobile money service platform across the continent.
The partnership, which was announced at the GSMA’s Mobile 360 conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania enables Huawei to add a ready-made solution for remittances – a growing mobile money product offering – to its existing suite of services.
By enabling WorldRemit to connect to over 100 million mobile accounts currently using Huawei’s platform, the deal will improve access to mobile money remittance for millions of people.
WorldRemit is the first international remittance company to partner directly with Huawei. The deal is expected to accelerate WorldRemit’s technical integrations with new mobile money operators.
“International remittance is a very important mobile money service in Africa, and our partnership with WorldRemit will bring international remittances directly to Huawei’s customers across the continent,” said David Chen, Vice President of Huawei Southern Africa.
WorldRemit is excited to add remittance offering to Huawei’s extensive range of services for mobile money providers.
“By making it easier to connect to our service, our partnership will accelerate our ability to introduce our safe, fast and low-cost remittance service to millions of people,” said Ismail Ahmed, Founder and CEO of WorldRemit.
– CAJ News