--- title: "Understanding and Mastering Inward RMB Transfers to China with Richard Bensberg" slug: "china-inbound-payments" type: "archive" url: "https://globalfromanywhere.com/china-inbound-payments/" canonical_url: "https://globalfromanywhere.com/china-inbound-payments/" date_published: "2016-03-08T02:00:21+00:00" description: "GFA116. Looking for new ways to send money transfers to your Chinese suppliers or having problems with China inbound payments? Welcome to today's Global From Anywhere episode ! We have Richard Bensberg, the CEO of Remitsy sharing about cross border payments for business. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/episode116." --- # Understanding and Mastering Inward RMB Transfers to China with Richard Bensberg ![](https://globalfromanywhere.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/China-inbound-payments-main.jpg) * * * Looking for new ways to send money transfers to your Chinese suppliers? Welcome to Global From Anywhere episode 116! It’s a bit quieter today for my little intro recording here, my son Miles has gone up to my wife’s hometown for about 10 days with his grandpa. Will be doing some paperwork and other admin stuff – so the house is quiet, except for the occasional crying from Maggie. I have been talking to a few listeners lately, and I can always tell the difference from someone who has listened to the show v.s. just searched on google and contacted me – you guys are really deep learners and have much more knowledgeable questions and insights – so keep up the lifelong learning. Ok, now for this week’s show, we’re at globalfromasia.com/episode116 for show notes as always – we have Richard Bensberg, the CEO of Remitsy sharing about cross border payments for business. He and I had a great talk after the show too and he’s speaking at our Cross Border Summit – and even cooler – his company is sponsoring too – will have some proper coffee in the morning, so thank you to Richard and the Remitsy team for the support for the show and the summit! Also – after the show I’ll explain some of the nitty gritty of using the Remitsy system and we have another itunes review , so stay tuned ## Topics Covered in this Episode * #### Intro Richard from Remitsy * #### Payments business How did you get into the payments business? * #### Global currency and international payments So – payments, within one country, and one currency – but now in our global world, money is flying all over the place. Any fun facts and numbers about the increase in global currency and international payments? I’m sure it’s shot through the roof since early 2000s * #### China inbound payments Focusing on cross border into China – as everything in China, it is…. different, can you give some examples of how inbound payments to China are treated? * #### Regulated The Chinese yuan (RMB) is highly regulated – so this affects businesses sending money into China As well as money out of China * #### Business and personal Is business and personal payments treated the same? * #### Chinese names Any reasons why names need to be 100% correct, when Chinese names – why is it so difficult? * #### Future rates Where do you think the RMB / USD rate will go in the future? Any speculations? : ) * #### Offers About your company, any offers you can give to our listeners * #### Contact How can people reach out to you and your business? ## People / Companies / Resources Mentioned in this Episode √ [Richard’s company, Remitsy](/remitsy) √ [Hongbao stats!](http://chinachannel.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WeChatStats2016.png) √ [HSBC Survey about 5% hedge](https://web.archive.org/web/20170728232119/http://www.hsbc.ca/1/PA_ES_Content_Mgmt/content/canada4/pdfs/personal/news-room/2014/hsbc-renminbi-survey-9jul14-rev.pdf) “55% of Chinese businesses surveyed said they would offer discounts of up to 5% to their trading partners for RMB denominated transactions” √ [Bloomberg article on fake imports](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-15/soaring-chinese-imports-from-hong-kong-renew-fake-trade-concerns) √ [BigMac Index](https://espresso.economist.com/bd06640c5d8cf5707fe44373e9ec0b79) √ [Zhou Xiaochuan- no basis for RMB devaluation](http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/1912819/central-bank-neither-god-nor-magician-chinas-central-bank-chief) √ [EUR vs RMB$74 / $78 tn non-cash payments are B2B](https://www.thefinancialist.com/fintechs-digital-payday/) √ Frustrated user wanting Stripe – comment on [here](https://globalfromanywhere.com/stripe-in-singapore-hong-kong-next/#comment-598) ## Episode Length 43:07 Thank you Richard. And you guys got it – a free gift for listeners – your first payment free just shoot them a note. Now for some of my experience using the system – I signed up and they have just added USD currency support so that is awesome. You can choose between sending a certain amount, or making sure the receiver receives a certain amount. Now I know a lot of you are HK business account owners – Remitsy has a Hang Seng account. I’m an HSBC user, so there is a 55 HKD fee to go between banks – but they will include that as part of their service charge so don’t worry about that one. You upload your invoice and they verify it is a legitimate business transaction and voila. I’d love to hear how others are using it – or other ways people are sending money to and from China. I keep on getting comments on the blog post about Stripe ever coming to Hong Kong. One frustrated reader just said : Stephen Leung • 11 hours ago march 2016 and still not listed even private beta … :'( have to implement payment this week, braintree it is i guess….. I have been getting out of the house more lately going to meetups and such – and was at an ad hoc Shenzhen Amazon FBA meetup last Saturday. We went around the table and introduced each other – I was rather soft spoken and Chris Davey was there – he’s the moderator of the wechat group and some Canton Fair meetups – who was also a guest on episode 114 commented that I am used to speaking into a microphone not in public- SO TRUE Chris, so true! and now to end off the show on a high point – we have another iTunes review in the queue! Always love these guys – if you haven’t already please show your support and leave a 5 star review – so here goes this one : United Kingdom 2016-02-12 5 stars TomTom1300 A must listen if you are into ecommerce and sourcing from China Thank you for the show! I have been following it for almost a year and always get out some very useful and practical informations that I was not able to find elsewhere. Also the variety and caliber of people being interviewed ensure that topics are revisited but always with a different angle. 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