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MoneyGram.com expands to France and Spain
M
oneyGram has announced that its award-winning innovative
digital channel, MoneyGram.com, is now available to
customers sending money from France and Spain. MoneyGram.com
enables customers to stay financially connected with their loved
ones in over 200 countries and territories with just a few clicks on a
mobile device or a tablet.
In 2017, MoneyGram’s digital business reached its previously
stated goal of 15% of total money transfer revenue. MoneyGram.
com grew 23% from last year fuelled by new customer acquisitions.
The company continues to build on this momentum with the
expansion of online services to other European markets beyond the
UK and Germany.
“With nearly 60% of European Internet
users utilising online services to perform
transactions, we see the growing potential
of digital money transfer channels. The
launch of MoneyGram.com in France and
Spain is a part of MoneyGram’s strategy
to offer our customers convenient options
to send money their way,” said Grant Lines,
Chief Revenue Officer of MoneyGram.
MoneyGram.com enables customers to
send money for cash pickup as well as
to 2.4 billion bank, mobile and virtual
accounts in 48 countries worldwide. The
website offers features such as the ability
to find a convenient location, check the
status of transactions and estimate online
and offline transfer fees.
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SISCOG enables optimisation of drivers’ duty
scheduling at FGC
F
GC is a government-owned company in Catalonia, responsible
for rail transport in and around the city of Barcelona. FGC will use
a SISCOG system based on its CREWS product that speeds up and
facilitates the decision making regarding the duty scheduling of about
300 drivers from its three railway lines. This new tool ensures, in an
automatic way, compliance with the company’s different labour rules
and management goals, allowing at the same time to easily carry out
studies and simulations regarding the dimension of its operation.
The use of the system will allow FGC to create more efficient work
schedules and to reduce the amount of time required for the duties
scheduling, which is currently done manually.
This efficiency is possible thanks to the optimiser built into the system,
which offers a wide range of optimisation criteria with the possibility of
defining multiple objectives. This optimiser is equipped with algorithms
based on operations research and artificial intelligence models that
lead the state-of-the-art in crew optimisation.
João Pavão Martins, SISCOG’s CEO and Co-founder, said: “It is a
great satisfaction to see FGC take advantage of a tool whose main
objectives are to streamline the work of schedulers and contribute to
making the operation as efficient as possible.”
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