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About GMTransfer

Here’s our story. Find out how we’ve arrived at the award-winning service you see today.

Our journey to making money transfer better.

We've been on our mission to make money transfer better since 1996. Currency and money transfer is our passion, and we've enjoyed the wonderful journey we’ve taken to arrive at the service we offer you today.

1996 Currencies Direct is founded, and we make our very first money transfer
1999 We open our first European branch in Torrevieja, Spain
2004 We open our office in Cape Town, South Africa
2005 We expand our operations and open our office in Mumbai
2005 We make it onto the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 list
2007 We open our office in the USA
2008 Our online money transfer service launches
2009 The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) authorise us
2010 We achieve the highest possible credit rating, level 1, with Dun & Bradstreet
2012 Our group is recognised as a Global Growth Company by the World Economic Forum
2012 We appoint PwC as our auditors
2013 Our employee numbers exceed 250
2013 We expand our operations to Malta and Ireland
2016 We launch the best money transfer mobile app on the market
2016 We win the MoneyAge ‘Money transfer provider of the year’ award
2018 Our 16th branch in Southern Europe opens, bringing the number of branches to 23
2018 Our 250,000th customer sends money overseas
2018 We win our third consecutive MoneyAge award – this year it’s ‘Money transfer Provider of the Year’
2018 Our employee numbers exceed 500

Authorized by the FCA

We're authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority as an Electronic Money Institution.

Level 1

We have the highest possible Dun & Bradstreet credit rating, meaning we’re considered to have the lowest possible level of risk.

£16.5bn

Currency is our business; we handled currency worth over £6.5 billion last year alone.

We’ve helped more customers

More than 250,000,000 people have trusted us to manage their currency transfers since our inception.

Terms and conditions

Global Money Transfer foreign exchange rates apply. A Global Money Transfer and a Foreign Exchange transaction count towards your allowable transaction limit, bank account transaction fees may apply. Must have a Global Money Transfer chequing, savings or personal line of credit account to send a Global Money Transfer. Most transfers are completed by the next business day. However, there are times when a transfer requires 2 to 3 business days to be completed.

Read the Global Money Transfer Agreement.

1 Referrals must be made to first-time users of Global Money Transfer in order to qualify for credits.

2 To be eligible for the Global Money Transfer Welcome to Canada Package, you must have received Canadian permanent resident status within the past 5 years; any time period longer than 5 years does not qualify. You must request the Global Money Transfer Newcomer benefits when applying for a product. Other conditions may apply.

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