Xavier Martin Palomas

Xavier Martin Palomas
Digital Frontiers Institute

Xavier is a Stream Lead and Experience Director at DFI. He has more than 15 years experience in the area of development finance and financial inclusion in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East and holds undergraduate degrees in Economics and Industrial Psychology and an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Digital Frontiers Institute
Before joining DFI, Xavier has been an independent consultant, primarily in the United States and Latin America, for organizations such as the Grameen Foundation, the Inter-American Development Bank, the MIX, and CGAP. He has also worked in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.

Articles by Xavier Martin Palomas

Friday
May 11
2018

Xavier Martin Palomas

Digital Remittances: Now that they’re here, where are they headed?

Economic migrants send US $600 billion back to their home countries each year, most using expensive "traditional" agent networks, despite the availability of cheaper digital channels. But Xavier Martin Palomas with the Digital Frontiers Institute notes that in the past five years, we've seen a new wave of players and a renewed push toward digitizing remittances. Next month the Digital Frontiers Institute will launch its first course, Remittances in the Digital Age, to study the rapidly changing industry.

Categories
Finance

Tags
Base of the Pyramid, digital payments, financial inclusion, fintech, migrants, mobile finance, poverty alleviation, remittances

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