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Ripple’s XRP is not suitable for Mexican remittances, but it might be a good solution in the African market where Intermex has recently expanded. In February, we reported about Ripple‘s collaboration with Intermex (International Money Express, Inc), provider of remittance services to Latin America and the Caribbean corridor. Within the partnership, Intermex was to use Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) through RippleNet and “enable faster cross-border payments between the U.S. and Mexico.”...

The crypto market capitalization has fallen below $200 billion due to huge panic sell-off. Ethereum, XRP and other altcoins are losing their value.Today will remain engraved in most crypto enthusiasts and investors’ minds, not for the good reasons, but rather since most altcoins, including Ethereum and XRP, have shed a huge portion of their prices by about 20-30% in the past 24 hours. The huge free fall has been attributed to a panic sell-off, as investors run for safety to avoid risky...

The partnership between Ripple and Coinone is spreading quite impressively and controlling a large part of the Korean international remittance market.Ripple’s efforts at changing the face of worldwide remittance have brought the company a lot of recognition. Especially as far as cryptocurrency and blockchain technology are concerned, Ripple is easily atop most other companies looking to fuse remittance with crypto. RippleNet now boasts of hundreds of partners and the company keeps spreading...

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...