How NRIWallah makes money

NRIWallah is free to use. No paywalls, no accounts, no charges — and that will not change. Running the site still costs money, so here is exactly how we fund it, in plain language.

Affiliate commissions

Some links on NRIWallah are affiliate links. If you click one and then open an account or make a transfer with that provider, the provider pays us a commission. It costs you nothing extra — the rate and fees you get are identical whether you arrive through our link or go to the provider directly.

Affiliate links appear mainly on our money pages: the remittance comparisons , broker comparison , mortgage tools , and insurance guides . Every button or link that can earn us a commission sits on a page that discloses it.

Display advertising

We show display ads served by Google AdSense on some pages. Advertisers pay per view or click; they have no access to your personal data from us, and no say in our editorial content. Our privacy policy covers how advertising cookies work and how to opt out via our consent banner.

Sponsored placements

Occasionally a provider may pay for a clearly-labelled placement — for example a “featured partner” card. These are always marked as such and are never blended into our rated picks or comparison tables. If you are a provider interested in reaching NRIs, see our partner page .

What money never buys on NRIWallah

This is the part that matters:

• Ratings are not for sale. Star ratings and “best for” picks follow our published rating methodology , scored the same way for partners and non-partners. Several top-rated providers on this site pay us nothing.
• Order is not for sale. Comparison tables sort by the data — rates, fees, margins — not by who pays us.
• Cons stay published. Being a partner does not get a provider’s drawbacks removed or softened.
• Coverage is not conditional. We write about providers with no affiliate program whenever they are genuinely good options for NRIs.

If a partner ever objected to honest coverage, we would keep the coverage and drop the partner.

Why we do it this way

The whole value of a comparison site is trust. An NRI deciding where to send USD 10,000 needs the true answer, not the best-paying one — and a site that shades its answers toward commissions quickly becomes worthless to the readers it depends on. Long-term, honesty is also simply the better business: readers who save money come back, and providers want to be in front of readers who trust the site.

Questions

If anything on this page is unclear, or you believe a page is missing a disclosure it should have, contact us and we will fix it. For more about who we are, see About NRIWallah .