{"id":2082,"date":"2012-08-04T07:03:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T21:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2012-08-04T07:03:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T21:03:03","slug":"moneygram-expands-to-30-more-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2082","title":{"rendered":"MoneyGram expands to 30 more countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/p>\n<ul>\nMANILA, Philippines.<\/ul>\n<p><\/strong> \u2014 MoneyGram(NYSE: MGI), a leading global money transfer company, announced that it has added 30 countries to its direct-to-account (or cash-to-account) service for funds sent to the Philippines. Previously, the direct-to-account service was available only for customers sending funds from the United States to the Philippines.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This service enables customers to send needed funds directly into their family and friends\u2019 bank accounts at any of the participating 20 banks in the Philippines, including: Banco De Oro (BDO), Allied Bank, Asia Trust, Asia United Bank, Bank of Commerce, BPI, China Bank, Citibank, DBP, East-West Bank, HSBC, Land Bank, Maybank, Metrobank, PNB, Planters Bank, RCBC, Security Bank, Union Bank, and UCPB.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can now send funds to the Philippines from Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Belgium, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg,Maldives, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Trinidad, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis expansion is a strong demonstration of our commitment to better serve the needs of Filipinos living and working overseas and their beneficiaries in the Philippines,\u201d said Jonathan Diokno, senior vice president and head of BDO Remittance Origination. \u201cOur relationship with MoneyGram, one of the world\u2019s leading remittance companies, boosts our efforts to increasingly reach the more than eight million Filipinos living abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a growing demand for Filipinos living in these countries to send money to their families in the Philippines,\u201d said Nick Cunnew, MoneyGram\u2019s vice president for Asia Pacific. \u201cTo support that demand, our expanded technology helps Filipinos living in these countries transfer funds directly into their families\u2019 bank accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>MoneyGram Direct-to-Account<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bank holders at participating banks can collect funds at the bank and recipients can withdraw money from more than 7,000 BDO, Expressnet, Megalink and BancNet ATM\u2019s nationwide. [Subject to bank\u2019s hours of operation and local regulations.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines. \u2014 MoneyGram(NYSE: MGI), a leading global money transfer company, announced that it has added 30 countries to its direct-to-account (or cash-to-account) service for funds sent to the Philippines. Previously, the direct-to-account service was available only for customers sending funds from the United States to the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}