Patent ID: 8793187

Claim:
A self-service method for money remittance comprising: receiving a customer identifier input by a customer through a customer input device of an automated kiosk located in a first country, the customer identifier identifying the customer and being associated with stored information in a database necessary to complete a money remittance to a recipient; identifying the customer by the automated kiosk based on the received customer identifier and the stored information in the database; receiving a verification response that indicates to the identified customer at the automated kiosk that the identified customer passes compliance tests, the verification based on a comparison of customer data with government data and compliance regulations, the customer data sent to an external database able to initiate a comparison of the customer data with the government data and the compliance regulations; receiving cash input by the customer into a money validation device of the automated kiosk, the cash comprising a monetary amount; validating the authenticity of the received cash by the validation device; providing a list of one or more established recipients by the automated kiosk, wherein the customer and an established recipient in the list of one or more established recipients form a unique sender-recipient pair; and confirming a selection of the recipient, wherein the list of one or more established recipients is based on the received customer identifier and the information stored in the database, and the recipient is from the one or more established recipients displayed on a touch-screen of the automated kiosk.