United States’ retail behemoth Walmart has decided to expand its current offerings of financial services by offering money remittance services within its network of nearly 5,000 stores across America. It already has two money transfer services (the Walmart2Walmart and Walmart2World service launched last year) but the retail giant has also decided to power Walmart2World with Ripple‘s partners MoneyGram and Ria.November 4, 2019."@Walmart is announcing the next step in its commitment to help...
Read More »Wird Ripple Weltwährung und Universal Settlement Coin?
Ripple (XRP) soll künftig als Brückenwährung für günstige und sehr schnelle grenzüberschreitende finanzielle Transaktionen eingesetzt werden, kündigten Ripple und MoneyGram an. Die Zusammenarbeit wurde in einer nun erfolgreich beendeten Pilotphase getestet. Und seit gut einer Woche sorgt ein ominöser Ripple-Werbefilm für Aufsehen. MoneyGram: Zusammenarbeit soll ausgebaut werden Im dritten Quartal 2019...
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...
Read More »TransferWise Gets Operating License in the UAE, Set to Start Operations in 2020
Premier money transfer startup TransferWise is set to begin operations in 2020 after obtaining a an operating license in the United Arab Emirates. Local sources in the Emirates report that the fintech startup announced this a few hours ago and that the company intends to start business in the middle east starting from the UAE in 2020.In what comes as a series of successes for the company, TransferWise has been competing in the marketplaces that belong to global money transfer giants such as...
Read More »Investors Hint at XRP’s Dominance Against Bitcoin Amid XRP’s Sudden Price Surge
Ripple‘s XRP token has been one of the poorest performers in the top ten cryptocurrencies in the market. XRP has shed more than 60% of its market cap year-to-date. However, XRP price’s sudden surge over the last few days has drawn investor attention back to the third-largest cryptocurrency.If we look at the weekly chart of CoinMarketCap, we can see that XRP has jumped by over 10% in just the last three days. At press time, XRP is trading at $0.27 with a market cap of just above $12...
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