Khalid Ashmawy remembers the first time he wired money home while studying in Europe.
He had just received his monthly stipend as a master’s student in Stuttgart and wanted to send part of it back to his family in Cairo. It was usually a slow and expensive process, he recalled. A $400 wire transfer, for instance, could cost $40 in fees and take three business days to arrive.
Years later, while working at Microsoft and Uber in the U.S., and even after founding a startup, that experience hadn’t improved much.
The persistent pain point across different stages of his career eventually inspired Ashmawy to launch Munify, a cross-border neobank designed to give Egyptians abroad a faster, cheaper way to send money home and, for residents in the c
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