Tempo Money Transfer published 2015 results. Over 180,000 in 100 countries

The international money transfer service provider, Tempo Money Transfer, has issued the results of its activity in 2015. The France-based company said, "the year was a very intensive period for the company, that started its operations in the market, in 2014".

The president for the Paris-headquartered remittances operator, Mr. Jeffrey Phaneuf said that in 2015, the company management work priority, was to build up its operational infrastructure in various regions of the world for development of the corridors with outbound transactions in France and Germany (the two leading donor countries for money transfer remittances.

Mr. Phaneuf said that over 20 integration projects have taken flight, in various world regions, including; Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia.

Which has brought operational networks to over 180 000 locations, whereby clients can pick up cash sent from more than 70 agent locations in Germany and France.

In France, the Banque du France -licensed company opened a money transfer store, successfully operating in one of the busiest districts in Paris.

New projects were launched in Asia (China, India, Bangladesh and Nepal), in Africa (Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Guinea, Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania and Sierra Leone).

Mr. Phaneuf said that in all projects without exception, the company managed to reach the targeted operational levels, both operationally and in standards of quality.

“Being an EU-licensed company, we strive to bring the services to European standards in all aspects including quality, reliability and in number of options,” he said.

The services include SMS and phone notifications.

In 2015, the company made drastic efforts to increase its product line.

Money paid in Tempo Money Transfer locations can recharge cell phone credit in 80 countries, throughout the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, including India and Oceania. 

Mr. Phaneuf also noted that in 2015, Tempo Money Transfer started playing an important social role.

“In our work, we make accent on low transaction costs for wires. This makes for an effective decrease in the black market and brings transactions into the open, regulated sphere. This benefits the host country's economy and our customers,” the Tempo president said.

Mr. Phaneuf also revealed Tempo's plans for 2016.

“I expect 2016 to be a very busy year for the company. Now we have all operational component created, we are looking at increasing financial indicators and closely working with our partners internationally, to follow the main trends and clients’ growing demand for quality and affordable services.”

The Tempo president said also that the company is very close to launching online remittances, which is going to give yet another option to Tempo clients.

Joint project between Tempo Money Transfer and Smith&Smith reached operational level planned

The joint project between France-based remittance operator, Tempo Money Transfer and Bucharest-headquartered, Smith&Smith, reached planned operational targets, the two companies said in joint statement.

Clients are now able to send funds from over 70 of Tempo’s locations in France and Germany and receive the money in more than 600 Smith&Smith’s locations in Romania and 90 locations in Moldova. Options are available for inbound transactions, cash-to-account and home delivery. Once online transactions are completed, clients will receive sms-notifications.

The project started in March of this year.

Smith&Smith and Tempo Money Transfer offer home delivery payment service “ACASA” for individuals. The service provides the payment of the amount ordered by the sender at the beneficiary address, in Romania, indicated by the sender. It covers 3100 cities, 95% of the Romanian population, in addition to Tempo's augmented presence.

“ACASA” services also offer increased comforts for beneficiaries, who will not have to travel to collect payments, amongst these beneficiaries will be the elderly.

“Romania and Moldova are very promising money transfer corridors. The joint venture has given eager incitement to the international development of the two companies,” said Mrs. Stela Dimofte-Stamboala, Smith&Smith administrator, “The target audience are Romanians and Moldovans, many of whom work temporarily in France, sending money to their families, as well as individuals who do business in Romania.”

Mr. Jeffrey Phaneuf, the president for Tempo Money Transfer, said that since the project’s launch, the building of the operational component of the business has successfully been completed on time.

“The partnership has created a platform to send money most secured, speedy and conveniently to their loved ones, through a legal channel which will eventually support the Romania and Moldova economies and the societies at large,” he said.

“Within a short period of time, we've managed to have the services recognised on a national scale, in preparation for large-scale operational capacities being put in place, we have intentions to further increase client portfolio and transaction volumes.”

“One of our work’s accents is on low transaction costs for wires. This makes for an effective decrease in the black market and brings transactions into the open, regulated sphere. This benefits the host country's economy and our customers,” the Tempo president said.

The two companies also revealed that the project may expand to Italy, Spain and UK, soon.

Tempo Money Transfer-Royal Exchange joint project reaches planned operational indicators in India. Ambitious plans to expand internationally announced

A joint project in India between Paris-headquartered remittances provider, Tempo Money Transfer and US-based company, Royal Exchange reached planned operational indicators, the two companies said in a statement.

The collaboration started in February 2015. The goal of the project is to provide the clients with high quality and affordable remittances from Germany and France where Tempo operates through its agent network, to India. 

Royal Exchange is one of the leading companies operating in the Indian remittances market. It operates its own network of over 4,500 branches and partners with 3 large financial institutions, comprising of some 7,000 locations.

The two companies said in the statement that clients are now able to collect funds sent through Tempo’s locations in Germany and France, in over 11,000 Royal Exchange locations across the country.

The network covers all cities and towns, as well as large settlements throughout India.

“We provide customers with quality service of the highest standards. All of our clients are being treated with the highest class of service and support in the comfort of an office atmosphere. We are continuously developing the network and furthermore, branches are added to the network every week,” said Mr. Mathew Joseph, COO for Royal Exchange.

The president for Tempo Money Transfer, Mr. Jeffrey Phaneuf said the Indian market shows great potential and so does the project.

“Within a short period of time, we have managed to have the services recognised on a national scale in preparation for large-scale operational capacities, being put in place, we have intentions to further increase client portfolio and transaction volumes,” he said. 

The companies reported that their cooperation is following an ambitious path.

In India, Tempo Money Transfer and Royal Exchange plan to introduce sms-notifications and account-crediting.

Also, the project is expected to expand its geography. Operations may soon start in the US and Middle East.

“We see great value in cooperation and are diligently working on furthering the number of locations and countries of operation,” Mr. Phaneuf said.

Tempo Money Transfer currently operates over 170 000 locations in more than 100 countries.

The number of agent locations exceeds 70 in Germany and France.