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MoMo and ZaloPay will take a foreign passport. What stops most visitors is the next step: Vietnamese law requires every e-wallet to be linked to the user's own Vietnamese bank account, and since 2026 to pass a biometric check. Here is who can realistically use them, and what visitors use instead.
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Nigeria's official remittance numbers jumped 45% in a single quarter. Nigerians abroad did not suddenly become 45% more generous. The money changed channel, which is exactly what the reforms were designed to do.
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Indonesia has more than four million people working abroad and they send home about $4.5 billion every quarter. It is one of the world's largest remittance flows and one of the least discussed.
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Nepal takes in about Rs7 billion a day from its people abroad. Remittances are now worth roughly a third of the entire economy, which is a remarkable achievement and a serious exposure at the same time.
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Pakistan's remittances set a record $41.6 billion in FY26 and opened FY27 even faster. The latest State Bank of Pakistan monthly data, where the money comes from, what changed in 2026, and how to compare ways to send it home.
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Bangladesh added $5.2 billion to its remittance inflow in a single year. Most of that money was already being sent. What changed was the channel it travelled through.
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India's remittances set a world record in FY2025-26 and then grew even faster in the first quarter of FY2026-27. The latest Reserve Bank of India data, where the money comes from, the new US tax on cash transfers, and how to compare ways to send.
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A record half and a four-year low in the same dataset. Here is what actually slowed Philippine remittances in 2026, how much of it is the new US tax, and what it means for the family on the receiving end.
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Roughly $1.2 billion that used to reach Ho Chi Minh City through banks did not this year. Six forces pulled at the same number in the same six months, and only one of them was crypto.
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Crypto's biggest 3-day rally since 2023 pushed Bitcoin past $80K and Solana over $100 while chip stocks dragged equities red. Here is the scoreboard, the why, and the honest read.
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A nine-figure mining project died on one ambiguous contract clause. Here is the Reuters timeline, the honest read, and why this touches Tether's side bets, not the reserves behind USDT.
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The price is the headline everywhere else. The real story is $2.7 billion of bearish bets force-closed in one day, ten dollars of shorts burned for every dollar of longs. Here is how a record squeeze works.