Send money to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is compared here from 10 sending markets — the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, the UAE, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong and Qatar. Recipients are paid in Sri Lankan rupee (LKR), usually by bank deposit, cash pickup and the eZ Cash and mCash wallets.
Sri Lanka has a broad bank and agent payout network, though the low-cost digital field is narrower here than on neighbouring South Asian corridors.
On 5 of these routes a like-for-like recipient amount was checked against the mid-market rate, so the cards below can say what the best provider actually pays.
Where are you sending from?
- From the USA5 providers · best pays LKR 330,162 per $1,000
- From the UK5 providers · best pays LKR 436,923 per £1,000
- From Canada3 providers · best pays LKR 231,519 per C$1,000
- From Australia3 providers · best pays LKR 227,610 per A$1,000
- From the UAE5 providers
- From Germany4 providers · best pays LKR 369,632 per €1,000
- From Switzerland2 providers
- From Singapore4 providers
- From Hong Kong2 providers
- From Qatar5 providers
Providers that reach Sri Lanka
Each name links to that provider's own page: every corridor it appears on, and every one it is documented as not serving.
- Remitly · 7 routes
- Western Union · 7 routes
- Wise · 6 routes
- Instarem · 3 routes
- MoneyGram · 2 routes
- Ria Money Transfer · 2 routes
- Al Zaman Exchange · 1 route
- Commercial Bank of Qatar · 1 route
- e& money · 1 route
- Emirates NBD · 1 route
- Ooredoo Money · 1 route
- Pyypl · 1 route
- QNB · 1 route
- Taptap Send · 1 route
- TransferGo · 1 route
- WorldRemit · 1 route
- Xoom · 1 route
Checked and not available
- Wise from the USA — Wise does not currently support sending Sri Lankan rupees from the United States. Its own site lists the corridor as a work in progress with a waitlist.
- Wise from the UK — Wise does not support sending Sri Lankan rupees from the UK, and offers a waitlist instead — the same gap that exists on its US service.
- Careem Pay from the UAE — its own help page lists the destinations it serves from the UAE and Sri Lanka is not among them
- Instarem from the UAE — publishes UAE pages only for money sent into the UAE, with no send-from product page
- Wise from the UAE — the UAE is not on its published list of send-from countries; the dirham appears only as a receive currency within the UAE
- WorldRemit from the UAE — the UAE is not among the supported sending countries on its Middle East send-from page
- Remitly from Switzerland — Remitly does not operate from Switzerland. Its Swiss market root and every Swiss corridor address tested return a 404 in both English and German, including the Sri Lanka page that exists for its other origins.
- Remitly from Hong Kong — Remitly does not operate from Hong Kong. Its Hong Kong market root returns a 404, as does every Hong Kong corridor address tested in both its short and long URL forms.
- Instarem from Qatar — Instarem does not serve Qatar outbound. Its Qatari market address redirects to the global home page, which then quotes a euro to rupee transfer — the redirect-to-homepage pattern that looks live to a status check but serves no Qatari product.
- MoneyGram from Qatar — MoneyGram has no Qatari consumer site. Its Qatari address redirects to the United States home page. It still carries Qatari money: Ooredoo Money names MoneyGram as one of the partners behind its own app, so the network is reachable in Qatar only through somebody else's shopfront.
- Remitly from Qatar — Remitly does not operate from Qatar, or from anywhere in the Gulf except the UAE. Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman each return a 404 on the provider's market root.
- Ria Money Transfer from Qatar — Ria publishes no Qatari site. Its Qatari address returns the provider's own page-not-found screen.
- Wise from Qatar — Wise does not operate from Qatar. Its Qatari send-money address returns the provider's own lost-page screen and redirects to the global home page.
