Tagged: ripple labs

August 22, 2025 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a firm focused on enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, and SBI Holdings, a Japanese financial services conglomerate and its subsidiary SBI VC Trade Co., Ltd., a provider of crypto asset exchange business (jointly SBI Group), announced an MOU for SBI VC Trade, “a licensed… Read More

August 8, 2025 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a landmark development for the cryptocurrency industry, Ripple Labs and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have mutually agreed to drop their appeals in a high-profile legal battle that began in 2020. The decision, finalized on August 7, 2025, marks the end of… Read More

April 22, 2025 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Recent Federal Election Commission (FEC) disclosures show that major cryptocurrency companies and their executives poured significant funds into US President Donald Trump’s $239 million inauguration fund after his 2024 election win. Released on April 20 by the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee, these filings underscore the crypto… Read More

March 17, 2025 @ 10:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The painfully long-standing legal battle between the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple Labs, which began in December 2020, appears to be approaching a critical juncture. Recent developments suggest that the case, centered on whether XRP constitutes an unregistered security, could finally conclude,… Read More

May 10, 2024 @ 8:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

One of the world’s largest asset managers projects that the stablecoin market will tip $3 trillion in the next four years, a 22x leap from today. This, according to an update shared by Ripple Labs. Putting this adoption in context “requires understanding the role stablecoins… Read More

April 30, 2024 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, the provider of enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, has entered into a strategic partnership with HashKey DX, the Tokyo-based specialized consulting company of the HashKey Group, to introduce XRP Ledger (XRPL)-powered enterprise solutions to the Japanese market. HashKey Group has achieved significant success “with… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple Labs has reportedly issued its latest response to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) efforts to have the company pay around $2 billion in penalties. This, according to court papers submitted on Monday (April 22, 2024). This latest update comes after the SEC… Read More

August 13, 2022 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco’s blockchain payments Fintech Ripple Labs Inc, which is currently involved in an extensive legal battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is reportedly interested in acquiring the assets of bankrupt cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network. This, according to statements shared by… Read More

July 20, 2021 @ 5:21 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A judge’s decision to depose former Securities and Exchange Commission director William Hinman in the case of the SEC vs, Ripple Labs has the cryptocurrency industry talking, so now is a good time to revisit Hinman’s comments as a refresher. Hinman made the comments at… Read More

April 29, 2021 @ 10:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Hogan, Parnter at Hogan & Hogan, reveals that CryptoLaw has shared American Fintech Ripple’s response to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) letter which is disputing (essentially) “parts of the Court Order” from earlier in April 2021 that are “related to internal communications.”… Read More

February 21, 2021 @ 10:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

When the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against blockchain-focused Fintech firm Ripple Labs in December 2020, the crypto industry and larger community had reacted with alarm and many were surprised. The SEC’s lawsuit also led to Ripple hiring high-profile legal experts… Read More

January 18, 2021 @ 3:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

John E. Deaton, a lawyer focused on the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector (and other societal/legal issues), notes that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was warned that investors could potentially lose billions, considering “the magnitude of an SEC enforcement action” against Ripple’s XRP, which… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 11:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based Fintech Ripple has announced that it will be donating $200,000 to two different non-profit entities. The donations have been made to help combat and prevent the further spread of the deadly and highly contagious coronavirus (COVID-19). There are now over 532,000 reported coronavirus… Read More