Ripple, Circle back Singapore’s Tazapay in Series B round to scale cross-border payments

Tazapay has secured Series B funding from Ripple, Circle, and Peak XV to accelerate its global licensing push and strengthen cross-border payment solutions across more than 70 markets

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XRP steady as Ripple boosts cross-border payments and co-founder backs Kamala Harris

Ripple (XRP) token is holding strong despite market downturns with recent developments including updates on Ripple’s cross-border payment solutions and key legal victories, bolstering investor confidence.

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The $1,000 XRP Price Dream — How Ripple’s Solution For $300 Trillion Cross-Border Payments Could Propel It

This bold projection isn't just a shot in the dark; it's rooted in a detailed analysis of XRP's role in cross-border payments, particularly through Ripple's innovative On-Demand Liquidity product.

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Ripple Teams Up with Uphold to Enhance Global Cross-Border Payments

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The Largest Bank In Africa And The Middle East Joins Ripple Network For Cross-Border Payments

QNB Group or the Qatar National Bank is to harness Ripple’s blockchain technology to process real-time global cross-border payments. Ripple Signs Deal With QNB Group Ripple has inked a new partnership.

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SWIFT Intrudes Ripple’s Market by Offering Service for Low-Value Cross-Border Payments

Money-transferring giant SWIFT, a Ripple competitor, has expanded to low-value cross-border payments and remittances, entering "Ripple territory"

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Ripple CTO Talks to Economics Expert: Crypto for Cross-Border Payments Likely to Have Legs After Lockdown

Ripple CTO talks to an economics professor from Berkeley, Barry Eichengreen, on the Ripple podcast and discusses QE, stablecoins and crypto used for cross-border payments

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Siam Commercial Bank Taps Ripple for Cross-border Money Transfers

Ripple continues to make progress across Asia. Its latest venture focuses on providing low-cost cross-border payments to clients across Thailand. Various enterprises see merit in Ripple and its XRP ledger technology.

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Multibillion Banking Giant SABB Launches Cross-Border Transfers with Ripple’s XRP

Coinspeaker Multibillion Banking Giant SABB Launches Cross-Border Transfers with Ripple’s XRPSABB notes that the instant cross-border payment service powered by the Ripple blockchain network will help to bring digital transformation and better customer experience.

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Ripple’s Ross D’Arcy Emphasizes On XRP, xVia And xRapid’s Frictionless, Cross-Border Payments

Ripple’s Exec, Ross D’Arcy Emphasizes On Ripple’s Effort On Frictionless, Cross-Border Payments And More As the crypto market continues to plummet, investors are either holding on to their hope or are panicking.

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Ripple’s cross-border technology possibly breaks into China while IOTA hangs out with bankers

Ripple’s cross-border technology breaks into China? Ripple recently saw an opening to offer its cross-border payment technological solutions in the land of the red dragon. The opening is a result of partnership between American Express, US-based payment company and LianLian Group, a Chinese third-party payment service provider.

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Indian Bank Set to Adopt Ripple for Cross-Border Payments

While India remains a no-go area for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Ripple Labs, the developer of  XRP, is busy making inroads into the Asian nation, as per a report on August 2, 2018. Ripples Everywhere According to an FXStreet, the State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s institutional banking authority, is set to start facilitating instantaneous cross-border payment solutions with Ripple.

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New Deal With TransferTo Brings Stellar (XLM) To Over 70 Countries

TransferTo, an international money transfer with presence and outstanding performance in more than 70 countries has aired that it partnered with Stellar (XLM), a significant competitor to Ripple in cross-border money transfer.

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Ripple Chief Technology Officer: Getting Volume On RippleNet is Top Priority

David Schwartz – the current Chief Technology Officer CTO [former Chief Cryptographer] for the startup that provides better solutions for cross-border payments Ripple did an interview with Asheesh Birla – Ripple Senior Vice President of Product.

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Ripple’s first client: Executive speaks about the journey from 0 to 1

With Ripple’s disruptive approach to cross-border payments, it is only natural that regulated parties will be reluctant to sign on as clients. Asheesh Birla, the Senior VP for Product at Ripple, spoke about signing on their first client and the challenges associated with it.

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Ripple-Cambridge FX partnership; COO provides updates

Earlier this year, Ripple announced that Cambridge FX, a subsidiary of FLEETCOR has been testing xCurrent to leverage the technology for cross-border payments. Recently, Mark Frey, Chief Operating Officer, spoke about utilizing the technology to provide a better experience for their clients.

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Ripple finally challenged? Banks team up with IBM for payments solution

Ripple has found a competitor in the payments space, with a platform known as we. trade. We. trade functions on Hyperledger Fabric and is an IBM blockchain-based cross-border money transfer platform that aims to improve the speed and efficiency of cross-border financial transactions.

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Indian Bank Kotak Mahindra Joins RippleNet, Foreign Remittances Could Be Key to Partnership

The Indian banking sector will get a blockchain boost as one of the most prominent private sector banks, Kotak Mahindra, has now joined the RippleNet. The bank will be working on Ripple’s xCurrent platform to settle cross-border payments.

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Standard Chartered and Alibaba launch cross-border remittance service, Ripple at risk?

Ant Financial, Alibaba’s payment arm, has teamed up with Standard Chartered and GCash to launch a blockchain-powered cross-border remittance service. The first remittance was made at the announcement by Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma.

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Ripple’s [XRP] Cory Johnson – Cross-border money flow huge for global economy

Ripple, in its recent Twitter post, is carrying a highlighted statement by Cory Johnson at the Yahoo Finance Summit last week: “Moving money across borders might not seem that exciting, but if you think about what it means for the global economy, it’s huge.

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Ripple XRP Partner Has Launched In The UK

Southeast Asia’s leading virtual cross-border currency transfer service provider InstaReM, has now launched in Europe with its main operation being headquartered in London. The European market approach by InstaReM is aimed to ‘bottom out’ the market and name itself as “price champion”, just as it achieved a similar accolade following the companies launch in Southeast Asia in 2014.

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LianLian International Joins RippleNet to Provide Faster Payments into China

In order to support the influx of global payments sent to the Chinese e-commerce market and provide a superior customer experience, LianLian — a leading Chinese payment provider with 150 million registered users — has joined RippleNet to receive real-time, cross-border remittances and e-commerce payments.

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Top 3 Takeaways From Swell

If you attended Swell in mid-October, one thing was clear: This was far from a typical banking event. The inviting atmosphere put attendees at ease, prompting them to speak candidly about the pain points associated with cross-border payments, and the obligation they have to improve the payment experience for their clients.

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Ripple-powered Instant Payment Services Now Live with Axis Bank, RAKBANK, and Standard Chartered

In today’s increasingly globalized world — where international supply chains as well as the number of overseas workers are growing — it’s imperative to have fast, transparent cross-border payments.

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Much Ado, Much to Do – Part 3

This is the third post of three in a series on Ripple’s vision and product strategy. You can read the first here and the second post here. Strategy Two: Solve Liquidity Management with xRapid Cross-border payments usually involve a currency trade.

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Exploring Innovation in Payment System Infrastructures

At Ripple, we’re focused on engaging with commercial banks to implement production-grade enterprise systems — using DLT — to support cross-border payments. The post Exploring Innovation in Payment System Infrastructures appeared first on Ripple.

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MoneyGram to Use XRP for Faster International Payments

To allow their customers to send and complete cross-border payments quicker and cheaper, MoneyGram — one of the world’s largest money transfer companies — will use XRP in their payment flows. The post MoneyGram to Use XRP for Faster International Payments appeared first on Ripple.

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Top Korean Banks Work with Japan Bank Consortium to Modernize Cross-border Payments

The Japan Bank Consortium — a coalition of 61 banks in Japan, organized by SBI Ripple Asia — has announced the launch of a new Ripple pilot with Woori Bank and Shinhan Bank, two of South Korea’s largest banks with a collective market capitalization of more than $30 billion.

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Cambridge to Use XRP for Faster Global Payments

Cambridge Global Payments — a subsidiary of FLEETCOR Technologies and a leading global provider of commercial payment solutions — is launching a pilot program to use XRP in cross-border payment flows through xRapid.

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Demystifying Digital Assets Part 1

While blockchain and digital assets have become increasingly popular, it’s hard for many outside the industry to see beyond the buzz. The adoption of the technology combined with the right digital asset can provide benefits that can drastically improve the way financial institutions do business.

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Krungsri Collaborates with Petrochemical Company to Expedite Cross-border Payments and Retain Customers

By using Ripple’s blockchain network, Krungsri is not only able to provide a real-time cross-border payment flow for the petrochemical company, but also provide complete transparency into when the payment would be received.

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Ripple To See A Positive Trend With This News

The company Ripple, which straddles the world of virtual currency and cross-border remittances, is left calm and collected by RBI’s (Reserve Bank of India’s) restriction on how banks carry out their dealings with cryptocurrencies.

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Banks’ “Blockchain-Based” Payment Systems Are Not Really Blockchain, Ripple’s Schwartz Says

Banks that use Ripple’s xCurrent technology for cross-border payments are not actually dealing with distributed ledger technology, according to a Ripple representative.

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Ripper: Banks can not apply to Blockchain for future cross-border loans in the future

Ripple chief cryptographer David Schwartz claims that banks are unlikely to deploy blockchain to process international payments, citing low scalability and privacy problems, Reuters reports June 13. In an interview with Reuters, Schwartz argued that despite the fact that banks acknowledge blockchain technology’s potential in reducing transaction times and costs, the technology is still not

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Ripple: Banks Unlikely to Apply Blockchain for Cross-Border Payments in Near Future

Ripple’s chief cryptographer David Schwartz claims banks will not use blockchain for cross-border payments in near future

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American Express and Ripple at Money20/20 Europe: Changing the Cross-Border Payments Experience for SMEs

Small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make up the backbone of both dominant and emerging economies today. Yet they are the ones who are most impacted by inefficiencies in cross-border payments system — especially in the context of growing global e-commerce.

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Ripple Introduces the University Blockchain Research Initiative

Interest in blockchain is soaring, with a groundswell of activity taking place on the campuses of the world’s top universities. From new business use cases — such as making cross-border payments faster, lower cost and more transparent — to uses of blockchain for good, students and faculty globally are emerging as major contributors to the … Continued The post Ripple Introduces the University Blockchain Research Initiative appeared first on Ripple.

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Live Transaction: Santander’s One Pay FX

Santander recently released One Pay FX — the first mobile application for international payments powered by blockchain technology. Millions of Santander’s customers in Europe now have access to same day, cross-border payments, a critical improvement from the three to five days it traditionally takes to send money internationally.

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Korea’s Coinone Transfer Joins RippleNet

Coinone Transfer — a payments business and a subsidiary of Coinone — has joined RippleNet to use xCurrent, Ripple’s leading blockchain solution for cross-border payments and settlement. Coinone, one of Korea’s largest digital asset exchanges, will be the first exchange in the country to leverage the power of RippleNet.

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Santander Launches First Mobile App for Global Payments Using Ripple’s xCurrent

Santander One Pay FX — the first Ripple-enabled mobile app for cross-border payments using xCurrent — is now available to Santander’s retail customers in the U. K. One Pay FX gives Santander’s customers the ability to make EUR and USD payments to Euro Zone countries and the U.

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