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‘A new customer segment’: Inside Western Union’s refugee assistance program

  • Western Union and Mastercard are creating a digital infrastructure model for two refugee camps in Kenya
  • Western Union has long served refugees "by default," but now it regards them as a new customer set "by design"
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