‘I could help more’: could two new transfer companies change the game for Pacific ex-pats?

Two new payment transfer companies will be opening in the Pacific, where fees to send money are among the highest in the world

Kereni Vuai has carried a lot of people through the pandemic.

Vuai, 27, works full-time at a Sydney nursing home, which pays her AU$1500 a fortnight. She sends almost a third of that - $AU400 - back to family and friends in Fiji, many of whom have lost their jobs since coronavirus caused economic devastation in the tourism-dependent country.