Remitly not taking easy way out Matt Oppenheimer’s career has taken him to some interesting places and it was while working in one of them that he drew the inspiration for Remitly, a mobile payments service employing a combination of the latest technology and mobile phones to eliminate many of the hassles people often experience when making traditional money transfers. “I’ve traveled my whole life, and have been to every continent (save Antartica) multiple times” Mr. Oppenheimer began. He has also worked on some of those continents, and it was while serving as Barclays Kenya’s head of mobile and internet banking initiatives in Nairobi that he saw the growing inequality and extreme poverty impacting millions on the continent.