# Bingtellar > Borderless Global Payments For Everyone Bingtellar is a financial technology company offering cross-border payments and currency exchange services. It helps freelancers, remote workers, and businesses in Africa send money, convert currencies, and access crypto to fiat conversion. Bingtellar is a financial technology company that provides cross-border payments infrastructure for global citizens. It offers money transfer, currency exchange, virtual payment cards, and crypto to fiat conversion services, allowing users to move funds across borders and between digital and local currencies. The platform is built for freelancers, remote workers, international contractors, and small businesses operating across multiple countries. The company addresses the high fees and slow settlement times common in traditional cross-border payment systems, particularly for transactions into and across Africa. It combines stablecoin infrastructure with local payment rails such as bank accounts and mobile money wallets, using on and off ramps to connect digital currencies with local currencies. This approach is intended to reduce the cost and time associated with international money movement. Its product suite includes money transfer, virtual cards, currency swap, and a business API for vendor payments and payroll disbursement. Bingtellar also provides a crypto to fiat conversion service that lets users convert digital assets into local currency. The platform is used by diaspora communities, remote teams, freelancers, and businesses seeking to send and receive payments across multiple African countries and internationally. - Type: Company - Sector: Payments - Status: Active - Founded: 2022-01-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/bingtellar ## Products - [Bingtellar](https://thegrid.id/profiles/bingtellar): Bingtellar is a cross-border money transfer platform serving Africa, enabling users to send and receive payments across multiple currencies. It provides multi-currency accounts, fair exchange rates, and settlement that the company states is faster than traditional bank transfers. Individuals and businesses use it for remittances, supplier payments, and international payroll, with support for stablecoin-based settlement alongside local bank and mobile money payout. (Peer to Peer & Remittance, Live, Main Product) - [Bingtellar Ramp](https://thegrid.id/profiles/bingtellar): Bingtellar Ramp is a crypto on-ramp and off-ramp service that lets users convert between digital assets and local African currencies. It connects to external crypto exchanges and self-custodial wallets, allowing users to fund or withdraw balances by converting cash to crypto and crypto to cash. The service supports a small set of major digital assets and settles conversions to bank accounts or mobile money through licensed partner transmitters. (On/Off Ramp, Live) - [Bingtellar Gift Cards](https://thegrid.id/profiles/bingtellar): Bingtellar Gift Cards is a marketplace for buying and selling gift cards from a range of countries. Users purchase gift cards for popular retail, streaming, and gaming brands using local currency or crypto, and can also sell unwanted gift cards back for local currency at market rates. The service is aimed at consumers looking for an alternative way to shop online or access foreign retail platforms. (Gift Cards & Digital Vouchers, Inactive/Support Ended) ## Links - [Main](http://www.bingtellar.com) - [Blog](https://blog.bingtellar.com) - [Terms of Service](https://www.bingtellar.com/terms-of-service) - [Privacy policy](https://www.bingtellar.com/privacy-policies) - [Documentation](https://www.bingtellar.com/faqs) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/trybingtellar) - [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@bingtellar) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/bingtellarhq) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bingtellar) - [Telegram](http://t.me/BingtellarCommunity) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/bingtellar) ## Legal This data is provided under two licensing models. Model 1 - open data. The open data core is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) — a copyleft/share-alike license allowing free use, modification, and sharing for any purpose. 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