“Can Remitly expand from the world's leading digital remittance platform into the primary financial membership for cross-border households — bundling send, store, and grow capabilities into a single app?”
Founded in 2011 as BeamIt Mobile, a remittance search engine, Remitly quickly pivoted to becoming a direct digital money transfer platform, rebranding in 2012. Over the next decade it scaled into one of the largest digital remittance networks, covering 175+ countries and going public on NASDAQ in 2021. In 2025, Remitly announced a significant product expansion with Remitly One — moving beyond pure remittances to offer a financial membership that bundles send-now-pay-later credit (Remitly Flex), a rewards wallet (Remitly Wallet), and cashback, positioning itself as a broader financial platform for immigrants and cross-border households.
Remitly discloses Sunrise Banks, Lead Bank and Fifth Third Bank as its banking providers, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
Remitly does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through Sunrise Banks, Lead Bank and Fifth Third Bank.
Remitly processes payments through Stripe.
Remitly uses Remitly (self-operated) for FX and cross-border payouts.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 7 layers in Remitly's stack: Payments / PSP (Stripe); Banking / BaaS (Sunrise Banks, Lead Bank and Fifth Third Bank); Card issuing (Lead Bank); Card network (Visa); Lending (Remitly Flex (send-now-pay-later, up to $250)); Sponsor bank (Sunrise Banks, Lead Bank and Fifth Third Bank); FX & payouts (Remitly (self-operated)).
Remitly was founded by Matthew Oppenheimer, Josh Hug and Shivaas Gulati and is founded in 2011, headquartered in Seattle, WA, USA.
Remitly has raised ~$1.5B+ (pre-IPO) in total (latest round: IPO, September 2021 (NASDAQ: RELY); valuation: ~$1.5B valuation at Series E (2020); public since 2021).
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