Money transfer generally refers to one of the following cashless modes of payment or payment systems:
- Wire transfer, an international expedited bank-to-bank funds transfer
- Electronic funds transfer, an umbrella term mostly used for bank card-based payments
- Email Money Transfer, an online banking transfer between Canadian banks
- Giro, also known as direct deposit
- Money order, transfer by postal cheque, Money Gram or others
- Paypal, transfer by email on Paypal.
It can also refer to the following cash-based wire transfer systems:
- al-Barakat, an informal money transfer system originating in the Arab world
- Hawala (also known as hundi), an informal system primarily used to send money to and from the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and South Asia
- Remittance, transfer of money by a foreign worker to his or her home country
Famous quotes containing the words money and/or transfer:
“Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“I have proceeded ... to prevent the lapse from ... the point of blending between wakefulness and sleep.... Not ... that I can render the point more than a pointbut that I can startle myself ... into wakefulnessand thus transfer the point ... into the realm of Memoryconvey its impressions,... to a situation where ... I can survey them with the eye of analysis.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
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