Ooredoo Fintech expands money transfer options in Qatar through partnership with Western Union

Ooredoo Fintech has launched a new partnership with Western Union that plugs Western Union’s international money transfer services directly into the Ooredoo Money app in Qatar, giving customers more ways to send and receive money globally from their mobile wallets.​

What the partnership does

• Western Union services are now available inside the Ooredoo Money app for users in Qatar, enabling cross‑border transfers from the same wallet they already use for local payments and remittances.

• Customers can send money to Western Union’s global network, which covers more than 200 countries and territories and connects to bank accounts, wallets, cards and retail locations worldwide.​

Benefits for users in Qatar

• The integration adds another trusted remittance option alongside existing partners (such as MoneyGram and exchange houses) and is aimed at giving customers more flexibility, better choice of corridors and digital-first transfers from their phones.

• It supports Qatar’s large expatriate population by making it easier to send money to families abroad, with transfers initiated and tracked in-app and processed via Western Union’s established infrastructure.​

Strategic context

• Ooredoo Fintech positions this as part of a wider strategy to build a regional fintech ecosystem and promote digital financial inclusion across its markets in MENA, starting with Qatar and planning expansion of the Western Union tie-up to other countries where it operates.

• For Western Union, the deal deepens its presence in one of the Middle East’s main fintech and remittance hubs by embedding its rails in a popular mobile wallet that is already used for domestic and international payments.