Trends · data through September 2026

Money Transfer & Remittances in California

Iceflower tracks 35 stores from 9 money transfer & remittances in California. Western Union grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ria Money Transfer and Currency Exchange International.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
9
Tracked stores
35
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked money transfer & remittances

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Western Union and Ria Money Transfer sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Western Union - -11.5%
2 Ria Money Transfer ▲1 -14.8%
3 Currency Exchange International ▼1 -57.1%
  • Western Union
  • Lucky Money Inc
  • PNB Remittance Centers
  • Travelex Currency Services
  • Pnb Remittance Ctr
  • Ria Money Transfer
  • International Currency Exchange
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

35 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. 0.1% of the tracked other stores here are money transfer & remittances, against 0.2% across the United States.

  • Western Union (19)
  • Lucky Money Inc (2)
  • PNB Remittance Centers (3)
  • Travelex Currency Services (1)
  • Pnb Remittance Ctr (1)
  • Ria Money Transfer (4)
  • International Currency Exchange (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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