Today WorldRemit is one of the UK's most high profile fintech companies, offering international remittance services from 50 countries to more than 120 destinations around the globe. Users can send money via computer, smartphone or tablet and picked up in the shape of a bank deposit, mobile money or mobile airtime top-up as well as more traditional cash pick-up. Aiming to offer an alternative to high fee charging incumbents with highstreet agent models, it is part of a new generation of money transfer services that want to make sending money as easy as sending a message online. Backed by the likes of Facebook and Dropbox investor Accel Partners, the firm is one of London's best-backed financial tech companies with around $150m in venture funding under its belt. In the latest episode of the FinTalk interview podcast series we talk to Ismail Ahmed, who decided to build WorldRemit after experiencing the high cost and inconvenience of sending and receiving money first hand, initially growing up in Somaliland and later as a student in London sending money home. We talk about the challenges he faced building the business, where he sees the industry in 10 years and what he's learned along the way.