Last year, the U.K. payment remittance platform TransferGo, announced that it had entered a partnership with Ripple and joined RippleNet, with a focus of helping Indian migrants in the U.K. make cross-border payments back to their families. However, the company has now announced that it will take the relationship a notch higher, and move its business to Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) which uses XRP.Speaking about the move, CEO Daumantas Dvilinskas has suggested that ODL will shoot the...
Read More »Ripple Finishes $50M Investment in MoneyGram
Financial services company MoneyGram International Inc. announced on Monday that a provider of leading enterprise blockchain solutions for global payments Ripple Labs, completed its final $20 million investment in MoneyGram equity consistent to its primarily $50 million equity investment commitment that the company made earlier this year.The price of share Ripple paid was $4.10 that seems to be pretty much higher than MoneyGram’s current price on the market. As per the announcement, the...
Read More »XRP’s Daily Transaction Volume Sets New Record, Surges above Bitcoin and Ethereum
Transaction volume is an important metric often considered to determine the growth and popularity of a blockchain ecosystem. This is a go-to metric that often determines user activity and interest for a particular blockchain system. Well, XRP is the show stealer at this moment as it has surpassed both Bitcoin and Ethereum in daily transaction volumes.Last Saturday, November 23, the XRP ledger daily transaction volume hit a massive figure of 4 million. This is the highest recorded volume for...
Read More »Japan’s SBI Holdings Forms Alliance with Fukushima to Use Ripple’s MoneyTap
Photo: ShutterstockJapanese business and financial services company SBI Holdings Inc. has announced its decision to form a capital and business alliance with Fukushima Bank, to achieve several goals including increasing profitability for financial institutions in general, as well as improving local customer assets and productivity of related companies. The alliance will also see Fukushima Bank incorporating MoneyTap payment app, which is powered by Ripple.The general goal of improving...
Read More »#744 Nur 1 Prozent der Kryptos werden überleben, Elixxir Blockchain Messenger & K.im IEO abgesagt
Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 744. Heute geht’s um folgende Themen: 99% Prozent aller Kryptowährungen werden scheitern, Elixxir veröffentlicht Blockchain Messenger, Bitfinex Kim DotCom IEO K.im abgesagt. 1.) Ripple CEO Garlinghouse: 99% Prozent aller Kryptowährungen werden scheiternhttps://cryptomonday.de/ripple-ceo-garlinghouse-99-prozent-aller-kryptowaehrungen-werden-scheitern/ 2.) Elixxir veröffentlicht Messenger, der Metadaten...
Read More »Investor Seeking Ripple’s Response over Ongoing XRP Sales
Ripple Labs Inc, and its CEO Brad Garlinghouse are enmeshed in a lawsuit with Bradley Sostack who is the court-appointed plaintiff in a lawsuit that argues that Ripples monthly Escrow sales of its token constitute illegal sales of securities.The filing which was made public on Monday indicates that the new claim was made as a result of Ripples’ motion to dismiss the suit in September. Ripple is basing its argument on the statute of repose where the plaintiff didn’t file any charges within the...
Read More »XRP is 10X Safer than Fiat for Cross-Border Payments
Ripple‘s XRapid system is 10 times safer and is only one-tenth volatile if compared fiat for making international payments. Fiat cannot compete with XRP’s speed and security.Ripple is a real-time gross settlement system and a form of currency exchange. Banks and financial institutions have the cryptocurrency XRP which is used in a row of Ripple’s solutions, as a settlement infrastructure technology. Payments done using it are irreversible, and there are no chargebacks.In its study Ripple...
Read More »XRP Is 10 Times Safer Than Fiat for Intl Payments – Ripple
According to Ripple, XRP is 1/10th as volatile as fiat for cross-border payments. The current SWIFT system is so slow it exacerbates international payment risk. XRP payments clear so fast that the exchange rate risk is negligible. The math busters over at Ripple have crunched the numbers and conducted a study that concludes that XRP is 10 times safer for making international payments – or as Team Ripple explains, one-tenth as volatile as fiat for cross-border transactions. Ripple’s...
Read More »Ripple and Ethereum Executives Pummel Libra
Libra has been a hot topic of debate lately, and now, executives of both Ripple and Ethereum are adding their thoughts to the mix.Libra Is Still Having Some TroubleLibra is Facebook’s new stable cryptocurrency. Designed to be a global payment system, the currency can be utilized via social media to purchase goods and services. Unfortunately, at the center of the project is a serious trust issue – one that seems to be growing larger with each passing day.This is the sentiment of Ripple’s Brad...
Read More »Former Bank of America Executive Joins Ripple as Head of Regulatory Affairs
The blockchain startup Ripple is currently facing some major regulatory hurdles as investors have raised questions over the state of XRP being securities. To tackle this matter at hand, Ripple has brought some financial industry heavyweights to its board.In one such move, Ripple has recently appointed ex Bank of America executive – Benjamin Melnicki – as its head of Regulatory Affairs. Melnicki’s job at Ripple will be communicating and maintaining absolute transparency regarding Ripple’s...
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