I expect that if immigration is not curbed significantly in the next few years, there is a very good chance that remittances will become a political issue in Ireland, and in Europe more broadly, in a way that they haven’t been so far – this side of the Atlantic, at least.
On this week’s episode of The Long Game podcast with my friend Ben Scallan, I mentioned observing an uptick in advertisements for digital financial transfer platform, Remitly, which enables payments across more than 175 countries.