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 »XRP Is Down 16% since Swell, Will It Ever Rise Again?
In what has been seen by many in the crypto space as a massive disappointment, Ripple Labs’ XRP token has fallen 16% to new lows since the swell event which held earlier this month in the Island Nation of Singapore. The token which has been seen by many to be one of the most innovative in the cryptocurrency basket has filed to meet the expectations for many factors some of which can be directly traced to actions by the parent company.Firstly, the burning of 55 billion Stellar Lumens (XLM) by...
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 »Ripple’s Partners MoneyGram and Ria to Power Walmart’s Money Transfer Service
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 »Ripple Labs Expands RippleNet as the First Vietnamese TPBank Joins It
Ripple Labs Inc. has already started making inroads in the financial space in Asia as sources indicate that TPBank based in Vietnam is the first financial institution in the country to join the blockchain payments network. RippleNet allows international remittances to take place in mere minutes rather than in days unlike traditional networks such as SWIFT and at much less cost as well.This was stated on the bank’s website which indicated the bank’s first foray into blockchain technology and...
Read More »Samsung Joins Forces with Ripple’s Partner Finablr to Introduce International Payments
Samsung Electronics America has officially announced that it will collaborate with the fintech firm, Finablr. The partnership aims to launch an international money transfer service that will operate through the Samsung Pay app. The service currently targets US users and Finablr’s subsidiary Travelex powers it.Official information shows that Finablr is a listed partner of Ripple in London. Nonetheless, this deal with Samsung has no involvement from Ripple or XRP. An official announcement...
Read More »Ripple Expands its Outreach Signing Finastra Into Its RippleNet
Ripple Labs Inc has taken one more step in consolidating its global remittances and payments network with a new partnership with London-based Fintech firm Finastra. The company announced this yesterday in a statement indicating the partnership will offer Finastra’s customers access to Ripple’s Mainnet blockchain. Being one of the most successful banking software solutions firms in the world, Finastra offers software solutions to all across the financial value chain and the global linkages it...
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...
Read More »Should I Buy and Sell XRP in 2019?
XRP is the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap and it is probably the only cryptocurrency with established relationships with traditional financial institutions. If you’ve been following cryptocurrencies, you’ll probably be wondering if you should buy XRP in 2019. XRP was released in 2012 by Ripple Labs Inc with the singular aim of becoming a blockchain-powered solution for sending money across borders seamlessly.You probably won’t be excited to buy XRP in 2019 when you consider the...
Read More »Ripple’s Xpring Is Now Open Developer Platform
To make sure that Ripple‘s XRP begins to function on a broad basis, Ripple Labs has introduced the Xpring platform in order to enable third parties to be able to use XRP’s Mainnet for different kinds of applications like never before. One year after Ripple announced the existence of the platform, the XRP development team decided to enable just about anyone to be able to create smart applications that use XRP as the main token of execution of transactions.Ripple indicated this in a tweet that...
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