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TEMPO MONEY TRANSFER Tempo is one of the most accomplished, Parisbased, European-wide anchor for stellar blockchain payments. The company offers a wide array of options including online, offline and digital remittances to nearly 100 destination countries worldwide. Tempo has now over 300 physical agent locations in Europe with possibilities of expanding its reach to 400 due to popular demand from its clients. It operates under two marketing names TEMPO MONEY TRANSFER and TEMPO Crypto. In 2011, the company received its EU-wide service directive license from the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel arm of the Banque de France (1)

History
TEMPO FRACE SAS was founded in Paris, France in 2008<ref name="TEMPO FRANCE"/ but it did not obtain its payment service license from the ACPR arm of the Banque de France until its launch in 2011. In 2014, Tempo obtained ACPR approval for new shareholders. The Company is headquartered at 89 Blvd Magenta near the Gare du Nord and Gare de l’Est train stations and provides currency exchange, crypto exchange and payments. Tempo partnered with Stellar, a major Crypto exchange company in 2017 and started launching payments using its blockchain technology.

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This partnership, resulted in Jed McCaleb joining Tempo’s board of directors. In 2018, Tempo launched an Initial Coin Offering in France In 2017, Tempo announced a partnership with SatoshiPay Medium for fiat payouts. The following year Tempo and Coins.ph also announced a Partnership to provide a faster remittance from Europe to the Philippines using the Stellar blockchain technology. Tempo President, Jeff Phaneuf said in a statement Medium“Thanks to this, our customers now have a fast and convenient way of paying their bills from abroad.”