“High fees, large incumbents, and a $400B+ market are under attack by a slew of remittance startups.”

CB Insights, February 26, 2015

For disruption to occur, it only takes one determined startup with a long-term vision spanning two or more decades. The disruptive force of innovation only required one Amazon for books, one Spotify for music, and one Netflix for entertainment. After over two decades since the founding of Xoom and over a decade since the launch of Wise (formerly TransferWise), the cross-border money transfer industry still does not know which fintech company will be such a disruptor. However, a decade of keen observation in this fiercely competitive space gives us a reasonable understanding of which ones still have a chance, which ones don’t, and why some fintechs are no longer around.