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Visa has announced some updates for merchants. Transactions on e-commerce sites will have higher rates, while retailers in certain services categories, such as real estate and education, will see fees decline.It got about the plan of financial corporation Visa to change the point-of-sale system for the U.S. merchants. According to the company, the move is the major system’s update through which Visa aims to persuade more people to give up using checks. Besides, the company is planning to...
Read More »Ripple’s XRP Price Is Up as BitMEX Launches Perpetual Swaps against U.S. Dollar
Just recently BitMEX has launched XRPUSD swaps. At the very beginning Ripple’s XRP price hasn’t reacted, staying stable. However, now XRP seems to be climbing up.The third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap XRP is now supported for perpetual swaps with the United States Dollar on the crypto derivatives exchange, BitMEX. The XRP price at first failed to react positively. It stayed at the same level. However, now the situation has changed. The price seems to be climbing up. BitMEX confirmed...
Read More »Ripple and Intermex Partnership Targets Cross-border Payments Between U.S. and Mexico
Ripple has entered in a new partnership. Together with International Money Express, Inc. (Intermex) it will ensure faster cross-border payments between the U.S. and Mexico.Ripple, a blockchain company specializing in global payments announced on Feb. 4 that it has partnered with International Money Express, Inc. (Intermex), a company providing remittance services to Latin America and the Caribbean corridor. The partnership between Ripple and Intermex is another testament to the blockchain...
Read More »XRP Price Jumps More Than 10% with Sudden Volumes Surge, Breaks Its Downtrend Momentum
Ripple’s XRP has surprised the market and the investors as its price jumped 10% due to a sudden surge in trading volumes. With today’s move, the XRP price has gained 35% year-to-date.XRP that us actively used by Ripple in its solutions has witnessed a sudden inrush of volumes today gaining over 10%. Despite the majority of top-ten cryptocurrencies showing only minor movement, XRP has successfully broken its downtrend.At press time, the XRP price is 11.84% higher in the last 24 hours and is...
Read More »XRP Price Can Hit New All-Time High in 2020 as 750-Day Bear Market Is Slowly Ending
Most of the crypto assets in the market performed reasonably well last year, on average. Considerable price jumps were seen for the top assets even if a correction eventually followed. However, the market’s 3rd most valuable asset, XRP, did not have a lot of glory days. Regardless, it looks like 2020 just might be a great year for XRP price as the long bear market that has lasted 750 days, might be ending.XRP Set to RiseCurrently, XRP is trading at $0.25. The price, while not exactly...
Read More »Payment Services Giant Worldline Sets to Acquire Ingenico in $8.6 Billion Deal
Payment platform Worldline SA in a bid to maintain its stronghold in the now competitive industry is set to acquire a rival firm Ingenico. The amount of the deal is already known. It will be $8.6 billion, which makes it the biggest deal in Europe so far in 2020. The sum is equal to 7.8 billion in euros.Global MergerBoth companies have been circling each other for years, but the reorganization of Ingenico last year gave Worldline SA the avenue to formally bid for the company. Worldline SA...
Read More »Ripple’s XRP Payments Find Use on goLance Platform with over 500,000 Users
Popular freelance platform goLance has praised Ripple for making the payments of over 500,000 users a walk in the park, in what can best be described as a show of excitement. The company announced that Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity, a cross-border payments solution powered by XRP, will officially be used to settle the payments of its users.The Painful Old WayLike most successful companies, growth is unstoppable. The same can be said about goLance, which has seen a spike in the number of its...
Read More »Ripple’s Global Network RippleNet Is Driving Usage of XRP
In an article, titled “The Sign of a Stabilizing Market: XRP Utility” that was published on Ripple‘s official website on Thursday, January 30, 2020, the company revealed that financial institutions are already utilizing the power of blockchain and digital asset technology. And there are tangible results to prove it.Ripple, the blockchain firm that actively uses the popular altcoin XRP in its solutions, has been in the news for a while now. Following a number of positive developments that...
Read More »Ripple and XRP Earn Mentions at Recent Hearing in U.S. Congress
Ripple and XRP were directly mentioned at a United States Congressional Hearing that was held on Thursday 30, January 2020. The hearing, which was titled ‘Is Cash Still King?’, was set by U.S. lawmakers to decide the fate of cash with relation to the rise of XRP and other cryptocurrencies.During the hearing, Congress directly mentioned blockchain firm Ripple and the efforts it has made with the adoption of XRP. So, someone eventually got it to spot on by recognizing that there is a popular...
Read More »UK Is Top Destination for European Fintech Investment with $4.9 Billion Received
The United Kingdom (including London) fintech ecosystem has reached a new record of $4.9 billion in investment. And as a result, it has managed to secure its position for another year as the number one destination for European fintech investment. Only the United States has a better record, according to the recent report from City AM, London.Exclusive data from Innovate Finance has revealed that the UK recorded a 38% increase in venture capital and private equity investment into its fintech...
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