{"id":66109,"date":"2015-12-11T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=66109"},"modified":"2016-04-12T03:04:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T11:04:03","slug":"foreign-currency-exchange-canadians","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/foreign-currency-exchange-canadians","title":{"rendered":"TravelersBox Could Make Foreign Currency Exchange a Less Painful Experience for Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nocamels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/travelersbox-.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 22px 44px;\" src=\"http:\/\/news.nocamels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/travelersbox--300x50.png\" alt=\"travelersbox\" width=\"234\" height=\"39\" \/><\/a>An inconvience of international travel is finding a use for leftover foreign currency.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli startup is looking to solve this problem.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelersbox.com\/\">TravelersBox<\/a> allows users to put foreign currency into a machine to redeem as digital currency, such as PayPal credits.<\/p>\n<p>The company has signed&nbsp;a cooperation agreement with Pearson International Airport in Toronto to install its automatic foreign currency exchange portals as it looks to expand across North America.<\/p>\n<p>Self-described as &#8220;the first and only solution allowing travelers in airports to convert leftover foreign currency into usable digital currency,&#8221; the startup says it will install 10 kiosks throughout the Canadian airport by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>TravelersBox already operates in several countries, including Italy, Turkey, and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The company was founded by&nbsp;Tomer Zussman, Idan Deshe, and Dror Blumenthal in 2013 and has an office in Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inconvience of international travel is finding a use for leftover foreign currency. An Israeli startup is looking to solve this problem. TravelersBox allows users to put foreign currency into a machine to redeem as digital currency, such as PayPal credits. The company has signed&nbsp;a cooperation agreement with Pearson International Airport in Toronto to install [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":66111,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-66109","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/66109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/66109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/66111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66109"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=66109"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=66109"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=66109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}