African immigrants gain as cross-border remittance app debuts in UK, Canada

African immigrants are the focus of a cross-border remittance app called YouSend, which has made its debut in the United Kingdom and Canada. Transfers by the app reach recipients in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania in minutes, with transparent exchange rates and round-the-clock availability.

The founders and promoters of this initiative assure migrant communities in the EU and the United States that their service will come their way in the coming weeks.

For millions of African immigrants in the UK and Canada, sending money home still means navigating fragmented corridors, settlement windows that stall on weekends and public holidays, and support systems built around chatbots rather than people.

But YouSend was designed around a different standard: transparent exchange rates, transfers that arrive in minutes, and live human support available every hour of every day.

The app runs on a stablecoin settlement infrastructure that replaces the prefunded float and the fragmented treasury operations that drive traditional remittance corridors. The technology sits beneath a simple user experience: the sender picks a recipient, confirms an amount, and the money arrives. The stablecoin layer handles the rest.

Before going public, YouSend processed over $1 million in transfers driven entirely by word-of-mouth and referrals, completing 95 percent of transactions in under two minutes. Every customer reaches a live human support team, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The company holds licences from the UK Financial Conduct Authority, FINTRAC in Canada, and the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The founding team first identified the opportunity, convinced that stablecoin settlement could solve the structural problems that had kept cross-border remittance slow and expensive. Rather than rush to market, they watched the category test that thesis through successive launches and service failures, and moved when it became clear that the core problem remained unsolved.

“Sending money home, to friends, family, or for personal projects, is one of the most important things our customers do, and choosing us means they are placing real trust in our hands. Our job is to honour that trust every single time, and to be there when it matters most,” Adeoye Ojo, Co-Founder of YouSend, explained on Tuesday in Lagos

Pratyush Shah, Head of Investments at CoinSwitch Ventures, noted that “cross-border remittances remain one of the strongest real-world applications for stablecoins,” explaining that YouSend combines regulatory credibility with a clear focus on speed, reliability, and customer experience, all critical to building enduring financial infrastructure.

Founded and headquartered in London, YouSend uses stablecoin settlement infrastructure to deliver fast, regulated money transfers to Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The company is backed by CMT Ventures, DCG, Blockwall, CoinSwitch Ventures, Musha Ventures, and angel investor Pule Taukobong.