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Today we officially launched our services in New Zealand. Alison Lambden, our NZ based representative is busy whipping the press into a frenzy and spreading the word on CurrencyFair.

New Zealanders by nature are great travellers, often doing stints in the UK, Australia and Ireland, and with NZ being such a great place to live it’s a popular spot for many Brits retiring or students moving to study.

Foreign exchange requirements in New Zealand are large and growing. Specifically migration to New Zealand gives rise to around 2 billion of FX transactions annually, not to mention another 2 billion on the back of the large number of international students.

This is due in no small part to the New Zealand government actively developing immigration through strategic...

It was great to chat to so many people at the Working Abroad Expos in Dublin, Cork and Belfast over the last couple of weeks. These events have been held regularly for several years now, and provide resources for those considering a move abroad to Australia, New Zealand or Canada.

People generally turn up to find out about visas and jobs, but we thought it would be worthwhile to set up a stand and let people know that there is money to be saved by thinking about their currency exchange as well. We used the simple example of a one year trip working overseas, and showed that the...

This week will see a change in Irish government for the first time since 1997. It seems Fianna Fáil, the outgoing party, has now been held accountable for the current state of the Irish economy resulting in the likely coalition of Fine Gael and Labour.

As an Aussie living in Ireland, I’ve always enjoyed the warm and hospitable good nature of the Irish. They will go out of their way to ensure you’re welcome, well fed and needless to say well watered! Trust me; you’ll never have a better time than out havin’ the craic with the Irish. But as a great man once said “the times they are a-changin’”, and what some may say is a legacy of the outgoing government means that many of us will get to return that hospitality, as emigration is proving a chosen alternative to the current...