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The partnership between Ripple and Bitso is proving fruitful as millions of Latin Americans can use the service to send cross-border payments and enjoy cheap, fast and efficient transactions.Through a post on the official website, Ripple detailed the benefits and growth of the partnership with Bitso, the largest exchange in Latin America. Thanks to Ripple, since 2018, Bitso has grown to be recognized as the largest money exchange in Latin America.Bitso Head of Finance Barbara Gonzalez Briseno...

The UAE-based National Bank of Fujairah PJSC (NBF) said that it will use the RippleNet platform for facilitating instant payment and settlement solutions to its customers. The NBF bank has also partnered with India’s IndusInd Bank to use this facility for its Indian customers.In the latest development, blockchain startup Ripple has inked a new partnership with the UAE-based National Bank of Fujairah PJSC (NBF). The announcement reads that the partnership aims to use Ripple’s RippleNet...

According to Ripple CTO David Schwarz, stablecoins are a major trend among institutions and even the Central Banks this year. It is expected that stablecoins will soon launch on the XRP ledger.Ripple‘s network RippleNet has been known as a secure way to bundle worldwide payment transactions in one place and connect users’ development activities. With its intelligent node identification, the network is significantly faster than comparable payment networks. Besides, charges are calculated...

Though Ripple hoped that it would manage to stop its class-action lawsuit, the legal battle seems to continue.A federal judge from California has ruled against the request from Ripple to stop a class-action lawsuit that claims the company sold XRP to its customers as an unregistered security. This means the case will go ahead as planned initially, a big blow to the XRP and Ripple community at large.Ripple had requested to stop the lawsuit back in December 2019, where Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton...

MoneyGram is one of the major partners of Ripple. And it received good investments from it. In the last half-year, it got a sum of another $11 million.It appears that in the last 6 months Ripple provides to MoneyGram an additional $11 million in investments. These indications were reportedly noticed in recent filings with the U.S. SEC by MoneyGram. Last year Q3 and Q4 reports indicate remittances to MoneyGram by Ripple Labs Inc. The sums were broken down into $2.4 million in Q3 and $8.9...

Bank of America (BoA) is the second-largest bank in the U.S. It reportedly will join RippleNet for fast and cheap cross-border payments and exclusive infrastructure. But there is still no official confirmation.Bank of America has a long history of relationships with the Ripple company. In July 2019, the bank even filed a patent claim based on the new technology: Ripple’s DLT. The institution also has a Real-Time Settlement patent, also they already ran pilot projects with Ripple.Since 2015,...

Brazil won’t adopt RippleNet or XRP as the Central Bank has announced its own payment network with low fees, fast transactions and huge liquidity. The PIX coin starts off in Q4 2020.The Brazilian government has decided to implement a new almost instant payment solution, presumably called the PIX coin. It will shine in Q4 2020 via mobile devices and POS terminals, and they have no plans on adding Ripple‘s XRP.The project was developed by the Central Bank of Brazil and received the name PIX. It...

Ripple-backed MoneyGram has announced that the new service called FastSend, that was created to allow customers to send money directly to the phone numbers of recipients, will be based on Visa and not on RippleNet or XRP.International remittance giant company MoneyGram has recently announced its new FastSend service in order to facilitate the transfer of money to the recipient’s phone numbers. The service will be powered by Visa and not by the pre-existing partnership with Ripple that offers...

In its new publication, Ripple has pointed out the major problems with remittance in the APAC region and explained how it can solve these problems.Ripple is slowly becoming a force to be reckoned with as far as the international remittance market is concerned. The company is consistently in the news for some of the heavy moves it is making to control cross-border payments. Ripple also has a significant interest in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region as the remittance market in the area is huge. In...

Ripple-backed MoneyGram launched a new service called FastSend to help customers to send money directly to the phone numbers of recipients. Meanwhile, Ripple has entered into a partnership with the National Bank of Egypt.In its bid to digitalize the entire financial ecosystem, leading P2P cross border Ripple-backed payment platform MoneyGram has announced today the launch of MoneyGram FastSend. It is a new service that is geared towards sending money to a recipient’s phone number through the...