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Hugo Cuevas-Mohr

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Mohr World Consulting - IMTC Conferences

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THE SOMALIAN REMITTANCE CRISIS

When Remittances Are Needed The Most As part of our presentation on the Somalian Remittance Crisis at IMTC USA 2015 and IMTC EMEA 2015 here are some key aspects that you should know about Somalia, the Somali Diaspora, Somalian Remittances and the Somalian Remittance Crisis. You can download a PDF from here. A BIT OF HISTORY The Somalian[1] histo...

17 March 2015 /payments /regulation Financial Services Regulation

On De-Risking, The Somalian Remittance Crisis and the MSB Bank Discontinuance crisis

In English, a “moving target” is when you set your expectation for something – some task, some desirable outcome, a target, and then when it is met you ‘move the target’ and set another expectation. It means that the person or entity you have set the expectation for is never able to fulfill it, never reaching the target. And “De-Risking” is fast b...

13 February 2015 /payments /regulation Financial Services Regulation

Developing partnerships with a licensed money transmitter

We all know that technology and the creativity surrounding the tech revolution is inspiring a vast number of payment innovations. Online financial services, mobile payments, eWallets, bitcoin & the virtual currencies explosion, smarter ATMs, tools such as contactless chips, beacons, geo-location, are seeking to make payments more inclusive, ea...

24 January 2015 /regulation

US TREASURY ROUNDTABLE ON FINANCIAL ACCESS FOR MSBs

In the Cash Room of the Treasury Building last Tuesday, January 13th, 100+ attendees gathered to participate in the Roundtable organized by the US Treasury in order to discuss the wave of account closures - Bank Discontinuance - that the Non-Bank Financial Services Institutions or MSBs [Money Service Businesses] in the US are facing. It was a...

15 January 2015 /payments /regulation

The TEN news of the Money Transfer Industry in 2014

As I did for 2013, I have put together the 10 most important news stories for the International Money Transfer Industry in 2014, as a way to reflect back and at the same time analyze the trends for the coming year. They are not necessarily in order of importance. They are based on my personal opinions and ideas from friends and colleagues in the i...

07 January 2015 /payments