LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LumoXchange, a ground-breaking financial technology (FinTech) payments company, announced the launch of its money transfer service to the Philippines -- the fourth largest payment corridor from the United States. LumoXchange has built a platform that lets you compare exchange rate offers from the leading banks in the Philippines and send money on its platform. Users can get 1-2 Philippine Pesos more for every U.S. dollar converted when sending money versus existing players in the market.
LumoXchange provides exchange rates from its partner financial institutions in the Philippines and lets users compare exchange rates, review customer ratings and send money. “Just like shopping for the best-priced hotel room on Hotels.com, you can compare exchange rates and convert your U.S. dollars to Philippines Pesos while saving up to 30 percent versus the competition,” said LumoXchange Founder and CEO Maf Sonko.
LumoXchange’s Director of Marketing and Growth Joshua Ang Price is a second-generation Filipino-American who has personal experience of sending money abroad. “My family regularly sends funds to our relatives in the Philippines, and I’ve seen first-hand how much money is lost in exchange rate conversion. Although there are websites that compare exchange rates, no company has been able to combine the comparing of rates locally in the Philippines and send money on the same platform until now,” Price said.
Through LumoXchange’s platform, Philippine banks compete to convert inbound remittances to Filipino Pesos by offering competitive exchange rates and options to pay beneficiaries directly into their bank account or cash pick-up. Among the early supporters of LumoXchange’s innovative money transfer concept is the Philippine government-owned Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP). According to First Vice President George Inocencio, “DBP is pleased to work closely with LumoXchange to offer the best possible value to our mutual customers in a transparent, convenient, and secure platform. We believe our kababayans (countrymen) will be delighted when they see DBP’s Peso exchange rate in LumoXchange’s platform. DBP completes the transfer chain by providing remittance access to any bank account in the Philippines, and to thousands of cash outlets nationwide.”
LumoXchange’s other bank partners include Banco de Oro (BDO), the largest bank in the Philippines with over 8,000 locations, and Land Bank of the Philippines, a government-owned bank with an extensive rural branch network.
About LumoXchange
Headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, LumoXchange is one-stop shop exchange rate comparison and international money transfer company. Through its innovative Local Exchange Networks (LENs) created with local financial institutions in each country, LumoXchange can provide cross border payments using the real exchange rates at the local level. Easily search, compare, and send money online with the great exchange rates. LumoXchange is an alumnus of the VC FinTech Accelerator by Empowered FIS. For more information about LumoXchange, visit www.lumoxchange.com.
