Consumers Yearn for Cheaper And Faster Remittances, Visa Finds

# Consumers Yearn for Cheaper And Faster Remittances, Visa Finds

> Evidence tier: B1
> Evidence type: Independent payments trade media report
> Source: [Digital Transactions](https://www.digitaltransactions.net/consumers-yearn-for-cheaper-and-faster-remittances-visa-finds/)
> Published: 2026-09-23
> Captured: 2026-09-24T02:46:35.215Z

## Source summary

Digital Transactions reports Visa's Money Travels 2026 survey of 2,000 U.S. consumers: 24% cited fees and 17% access speed among leading remittance concerns; 19% of U.S. and 32% of Canadian respondents said they had sent money abroad. The share who said they might use stablecoin remittances rose from 36% to 56% when bank-level fraud protection and deposit insurance were specified. Visa says the report uses consumer responses only and includes no Visa Direct transaction or usage data.

## Why it matters

The survey highlights trust, fees and access speed as potential adoption conditions for remittances, but it measures stated consumer attitudes rather than completed transfers or product demand. It is Visa-commissioned/company research reported by an independent trade publication; the report does not provide Visa Direct transaction data, corridor-level use, actual stablecoin adoption or a causal test of the proposed safeguards.

## Key numbers

- **U.S. consumer survey sample:** 2,000
- **Remittance fee concern:** 24%
- **Potential stablecoin-remittance use with bank-level protections:** 36% to 56%

## Topics and entities

- Industry lane: Cross-border market
- Entities: Visa / U.S. and Canadian remittance consumers
- Web3 payments
- Cross-border payments

## Evidence and credibility note

Digital Transactions is the independent publisher; material survey figures are attributed to Visa's Money Travels 2026 report. The survey is not transaction telemetry and Visa says it contains no Visa Direct usage data.

Date evidence: Digital Transactions page by Kevin Woodward is dated September 23, 2026

## First-party corroboration

No directly corresponding A1 company announcement is currently linked.

## Original-source traceback

[Open the original Digital Transactions report](https://www.digitaltransactions.net/consumers-yearn-for-cheaper-and-faster-remittances-visa-finds/)

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