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In what could turn out to be an incredible adoption potential, Mastercard Asia/Pacific (APAC) on Aug 20 received a patent from the European Patent Office describing a “method and system for device micropayment aggregation based on the Tangle network” that was initially filed in February 2019.
2020-8-27 21:00 | |
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The digital payments solutions will be a crucial focus in the company in the coming months, the report reads. It aims to enhance enterprise-based solutions by digitally transforming the payment structure across the globe.
2020-6-22 15:34 | |
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United Arab Emirates-based commercial bank RAKBank has partnered with Asia, a major bank in Bangladesh to facilitate cross-border remittance transactions. Ripple’s digital payment solution RippleNet will be utilized for the initiative.
2020-5-13 21:07 | |
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The crypto-scene in Asia, at the moment, is not very pretty. While BitMEX Japan shut down operations recently owing to the newly amended crypto-regulations as per the Japan Payment Services Act, SouthThe post South Korea: Revised crypto-guidance to encourage budding projects, entrepreneurs appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-5-2 16:00 | |
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Ripple’s payment solutions have gained traction in recent days as more customers leverage the solutions to power fast payments worldwide. These remittance solutions have earned Ripple recognition from the US Congress, traditional banking institutions like Bank of America and also the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
2020-4-16 14:49 | |
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PARSIQ delivers advanced monitoring capabilities to thousands of merchants on Dash thanks to new partnership. PARSIQ is working with Dash NEXT in Asia, capitalising on the region’s US$2. 5 billion digital payments industry.
2020-2-21 16:53 | |
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TomoChain, a low latency, and near-zero fee transactional system, announced today it has partnered with Wadz for online and point of sale (POS) payment solutions across Southeast Asia using the speed and security of TomoChain’s blockchain technology.
2019-12-16 15:36 | |
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A lot of news has come out of Ripple and its partners lately. SBI Ripple Asia is preparing to launch a money transfer service between Japan and Vietnam. In the announcement, it’s mentioned how this new payment corridor will make use of distributed ledger technology.
2019-11-16 05:00 | |
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Wirex, a London-based payment wallet firm, has announced the launch of a new crypto-enabled multi-currency Visa Travelcard which will ease the process of spending cryptocurrencies for users. Per the report by The Verdict, published on November 11, 2019, Wirex’s latest offering is for its customers across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
2019-11-13 14:56 | |
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Global Payments giant Mastercard has created a platform for greater fintech collaboration within the Asia Pacific region. This move comes as the region continues to see an explosion of fintech startups including crypto and blockchain projects looking to target several aspects of the nascent digital economy.
2019-11-11 16:00 | |
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Recently, Japanese banking giant, SBI Holdings, published its performance and strategy report, while announcing plans to use XRP to enable remittances from Japan to South-East Asia. According to the report, SBI Remit will utilize the On-Demand Liquidity service from Ripple (ODL, formerly xRapid) for this endeavor.
2019-11-1 19:30 | |
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The payments and technology provider Alchemy recently announced the launch of the startup’s hybrid payment solution, a platform that aims to connect cryptocurrency with retailers worldwide. Alchemy’s crypto solution features integration with Qfpay, a well known third-party payment company that provides payment services for more than 1.
2019-10-11 00:28 | |
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FOIN, a cryptocurrency company and a developer of the transparent payment system FoPay, announced the strategic partnership with Cyclebit, a crypto payment solutions provider. According to the official information, starting from that day, FOIN, the decentralized peer to peer cryptocurrency for the finance sector, along with 20 other top cryptos are accepted at more than 200,000 points of sale in Europe, Asia, and Canada.
2019-10-7 12:30 | |
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Retail merchants across Asia can now receive bitcoin and cryptocurrency payments via a new hybrid solution launched by Alchemy. Alchemy Launches Hybrid Bitcoin Payment Solution In a press statement issued Wednesday (September 18, 2019), Alchemy — a global crypto payments service provider announced the launch of the platform.
2019-9-19 19:30 | |
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Ripple's newest partnership will enable UK remittance firm, Xendpay, to move money to Southeast Asia in real time.
2019-8-23 20:00 | |
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Xendpay payment gateway that provides ‘Pay What You Want services’ is ready to further expand its initiative and help millions of people get more when transferring their funds abroad. This is possible thanks to a partnership with Ripple.
2019-8-22 19:18 | |
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Sagar Sarbhai, Head of Government & Regulatory Affairs, Asia Pacific at Ripple, recently spoke at the Bangkok FinTech Fair 2019, where he expressed his views regarding payment connectivity across the globe.
2019-7-20 05:30 | |
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Terra, a startup that is focused on building the next-generation blockchain-based payment systems, has inked a strategic partnership deal with Nexo, a highly reputed crypto lending platform to offer users new decentralized financial products, while also expanding the crypto lending and savings ecosystem in Asia.
2019-7-3 20:38 | |
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Kopitiam has announced plans to accept bitcoin payments as part of the company’s efforts to adopt digital payment means, The Business Times reports, July 01, 2019. The move forms part of a growing wave of cryptocurrency adoption sweeping across Singapore and Southeast Asia as a whole.
2019-7-2 09:00 | |
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Pay Forward: "Sarinya" from Ripple Video on Vimeo. Pay Forward is a new video series from Ripple that highlights the stories of people around the world directly impacted by cross-border payments.
2019-6-22 05:43 | |
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SBI-Ripple Asia, a joint venture of SBI Holdings and the United States Ripple company, expands its network in Asia. Coinone Transfer, a payments business and a subsidiary of Coinone, a major digital currency exchange of South Korea, joined RippleNet, a network of institutional payment-providers including banks and money services businesses provided by Ripple.
2019-6-18 15:00 | |
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North Korea could pose a threat to countries across Southeast Asia as it looks to exploit cryptocurrency exchanges due to gaps in regulatory frameworks, according to a new report.
2019-4-25 17:04 | |
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1st April, OKEx officially announced Blockcloud will be the very first project launch on their new platform —— OK Jumpstar and OKB will be the only acceptable token for payment. OK Jumpstar is a platform powered by OKEX——top 3 crypto exchanges in China, which is to help quality blockchain projects go public and get listed in a liquid and worldwide market, and at the same time, help fuel the growth of the blockchain market and ecosystem healthily.
2019-4-10 14:09 | |
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Omise, the payment company behind OmiseGo, is denying that it has been acquired as the result of a multi-million dollar deal. OmiseGo is a top-30 cryptocurrency with substantial adoption in Asia, which would make the acquisition significant if it were true.
2019-4-1 19:51 | |
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The financial and payment industries have seen a large amount of development and innovation in the last several years, particularly since the crypto trend erupted in mid-2017. The trend has especially picked up in Southeast Asia, which currently holds a reputation as a cradle of innovation when it comes to payments. Kapronasia's Zennon Kapron pointed […]
2019-3-30 01:38 | |
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Japanese regulators have reportedly approved draft amendments to the country's financial instruments and payment services laws, introducing stricter regulations for margin trading of digital assets.
2019-3-21 21:27 | |
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Azbit will provide traditional financial services for crypto projects and private users, as well as access to investment products. We will offer: For blockchain businesses and private individuals: traditional fiat banking and financial services, as well as brokerage services providing access to trading on traditional stock and currency markets.
2019-3-8 16:32 | |
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Cryptocurrency mobile wallet provider BRD wants to accelerate its international expansion, and it has secured $15 million to do it. The Series B funding round was raised from SBI Crypto Investment, a subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings.
2019-1-26 20:04 | |
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CryptoNinjas Zilliqa, the high-throughput public blockchain platform, has partnered with MaiCoin, a Taiwan-based one-stop digital asset exchange platform with trading and payment services to power Hg Exchange.
2019-1-24 05:10 | |
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This is the fourth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 and on Day 3.
2019-1-19 00:10 | |
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Ripple is currently at the Silicon Valley Japan Platform (SVJP) working so as tobridge the gap between the Valley and Japan. Emi Yoshikawa, Global Ops & Partnership at Ripple discussed how Ripple and the Japan Bank Consirtium are disrupting the payment industry in the country.
2019-1-12 21:02 | |
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Triip, a Singaporean, global travel platform that claims to make it possible for travelers to enjoy exciting private tours by offering them frictionless hotel booking experiences in 227 countries, has announced that its clients will soon be able to book their travels with Ether and TOMO tokens, according to local news source Digital News Asia on December 13, 2018.
2018-12-15 19:00 | |
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Ripple is joining together with Finablr’s UAE Exchange to begin blockchain payment by 2019. This will provide cross-border payment services to Asia through blockchain technology. According to a report from CNBC, the Chief Executive Officer of the UAE Exchange, Promoth Manghat admitted in an interview that his company is partnering with Ripple to start remittance […] The post Ripple and UAE Exchange Cement Partnership, Propose to Begin Blockchain Payment by 2019 appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-12-13 18:01 | |
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Midex, an international company with HQs in Estonia and representatives in Asia, has announced the launch of the first EU regulated crypto-to-fiat exchange. With the trading performance of millions of operations per second, a wide range of deposit and withdrawal methods (wire transfers, payment cards, instant payments), support of the top trading pairs, and a robust security system, the platform is here to meet the needs of crypto beginners and professional traders.
2018-12-3 21:30 | |
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SBI Ripple Asia has recently partnered with the Japanese Payment Card Consortium to fight fraud with blockchain technology. According to BankingTech’s article published on November 22, 2018, the participating companies plan to prevent the damages caused by fraudulent transactions, by sharing data and information on a real-time basis along Corda, R3’s open-source blockchain platform.
2018-11-23 14:00 | |
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The renowned South Korean internet company Kakao has teamed up with Terra, a next-generation blockchain payment platform. According to the press release on November 15, the two partners’ concerted efforts will focus on transforming e-commerce in Asia by utilizing the distributed ledger technology.
2018-11-16 16:59 | |
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One of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Bithumb, has begun providing a cryptocurrency payment service to a major online marketplace it refers to as “Asia’s Amazon. ” Korean users can use their cryptocurrencies held at the exchange to pay for purchases on Qoo10 using this service.
2018-11-10 04:35 | |
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Huobi Group revealed at the World Blockchain Summit in Dubai that the company is looking to expand its operations to the Middle Eastern, African and South Asian markets in a bid to provide services to its unbanked or underbanked residents.
2018-10-26 21:07 | |
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MoneyMatch, an authorized Kuala Lumpur-based startup for international money transfers, has made the first ever payment from Malaysia to Spain using Ripple’s enterprise blockchain platform. The post Asia to Europe: Malaysian Fintech Completes Its First Cross-border Transfer on RippleNet appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-10-18 11:41 | |
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The Santander Bank chain has recently announced the expansion of its Ripple powered platform, OnePay FX for other European countries. Santander also intends to use Ripple ledger for all its payment settlements for the future.
2018-10-10 17:30 | |
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SBI Ripple Asia launched the MoneyTap application in Japan. Now clients can execute real-time payment transactions at any time.
2018-10-6 18:11 | |
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SBI Ripple Asia, a Joint-venture based in Tokyo, Japan has launched its blockchain based money remittance app. The app called MoneyTap can make real-time, no-cost domestic transfers using Ripple’s xCurrent payment solution.
2018-10-5 20:14 | |
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While China continues to clamp down on cryptocurrencies, the nation’s oldest science and technology publication, Beijing Sci-Tech Report (BSTR), is accepting bitcoin for its 2019 subscription. According to an Asia Times article published on October 1, 2018, the BSTR began accepting cryptocurrencies because it wanted to promote blockchain technology and the use of cryptocurrencies in a practical way.
2018-10-2 01:00 | |
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In traditional banking, for there to be a cross-border payment, two banks had to be directly connected on a one-on-one basis. The situation in the Association of South Eastern Asian Nations (ASEAN) was exactly this way up until the Siam Commercial Bank (SCM) – a member of RippleNet – became the first financial institution in […] The post RippleNet’s ‘Multi-Hop’ Feature to Ease Cross-Border Transactions in S. East Asia appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-9-29 10:51 | |
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The SBI Ripple Asia Co. Ltd that is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, made a new step in launching their highly awaited Money Tap App that is scheduled for release this Fall. In a public notice, the firm made an announcement of the attainment of a payment license that will allow for the Money Tap Application […] The post SBI Ripple Asia Attains Payment License for their Revolutionary Money Tap App appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-9-26 12:59 | |
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SBI Holdings is not quite done with its foray into blockchain. The Japanese financial giant has announced plans to launch a mobile payment app for iOS and Android that will use Ripple’s distributed ledger tech.
2018-9-17 23:06 | |
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Ripple’s homegrown blockchain-powered global payment network has just bagged one of its biggest clients in Asia: the National Commercial Bank (NCB) of Saudi Arabia, a banking giant worth more than $120 billion.
2018-9-16 19:59 | |
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Japanese Fintech heavyweight SBI Holdings plans to launch a Ripple-powered mobile payment application called MoneyTap. In a tweet shared with his followers, Takashi Okita, CEO of SBI Ripple Asia shared the web page of the new payment application, which promises to offer "easy bank transfer application" without fees.
2018-9-15 22:03 | |
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On the 12th of September, the CEO of SBI Ripple Asia, Takashi Okita, announced via twitter that the website to a new cross-border payment app was now complete. The tweet (that has been translated by google translate) was as follows: Quietly, Moneytap’s website has been released.
2018-9-15 18:33 | |
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