Families in the Philippines sending financial support to relatives working in the Middle East can do so without paying transfer charges for the rest of March, as GCash moves to ease the cost of cross-border transactions during the ongoing regional conflict.
The mobile wallet service announced it is scrapping international transfer fees on money sent from the Philippines to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman. The fee waiver runs from March 12 to 31, 2026, and carries no minimum transfer amount.
The move comes as the US-Israeli war with Iran — which began February 28 — continues to send shockwaves across the Gulf, with attacks reported in the UAE and other Gulf states disrupting daily life for overseas Filipino workers and their families.
G-Xchange Inc. (GXI), the company behind GCash, operates under regulation by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. The promotion covers the four Gulf states where a significant concentration of the estimated 10 million Filipinos working overseas are based.
The zero-fee offer adds to a series of recent moves by GCash to deepen its remittance footprint in the region. Earlier this month, the platform signed a partnership with Careem Pay to enable direct wallet-to-wallet transfers from the UAE to GCash accounts in the Philippines — a deal described by GCash as central to its 2026 international expansion strategy.
Users with questions may contact GCash through the in-app Help Center, by calling 2882 on Globe or TM lines, or at (02) 7213-9999 on Globe landline.
