Tagged: ripple

May 1, 2020 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

American Fintech Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) payments network has reportedly managed to triple its transaction volumes during Q1 2020. San Francisco-based Ripple’s XRP Markets Report confirms that the dollar value transacted using the company’s ODL service grew by over 294%, which may be a positive… Read More

April 21, 2020 @ 10:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ripple has been pushed to the edge, according to a blog post today. The crypto-firm is suing YouTube – part of Google. In a document filed in the US District Court, Northern District of California, Ripple Labs, and Bradley Garlinghouse, slammed YouTube for: “irreparable harm… Read More

April 11, 2020 @ 6:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Azimo, an online funds transfer service provider, has teamed up with Thailand’s Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), the nation’s oldest financial institution, in order to introduce an instant international payments gateway from Europe to the Asian country. As mentioned in an announcement made on April 9,… Read More

March 30, 2020 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) in Thailand will be launching its Ripple-based consumer international payments mobile app. The SCB, which is one of the country’s largest commercial banks, began using RippleNet (Ripple company’s decentralized network of financial institutions) in order to connect to major banking… 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

March 19, 2020 @ 5:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ripple, a provider of enterprise blockchain solutions for payments, announced on Thursday it has formed a new partnership with Thailand-based digital cross-border money transfer fintech DeeMoney. Ripple reported that through the collaboration, DeeMoney’s platform is now processing live transactions.  Ripple further revealed that DeeMoney is… Read More

March 2, 2020 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

RippleNet, a distributed ledger tech (DLT)-enabled gross payments settlement network, allows banks and other financial institutions to securely perform cross-border transactions.  Developed by San Francisco-based Fintech Ripple, the decentralized RippleNet platform has been used to perform international transactions since 2012. The platform’s users might soon… Read More

February 26, 2020 @ 10:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ripple, a provider of enterprise blockchain solutions for payments, announced on Wednesday it has formed a new partnership with European digital money transfer service, Azimo. According to Ripple, Azimo has launched with Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service as part of its remittance capabilities in The… Read More

February 26, 2020 @ 10:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Giant money transfer service MoneyGram reportedly received a total of $11.3 million from San Francisco-based Fintech firm Ripple during the third and fourth quarters of last year. As mentioned in the recently released US Securities and Exchange (SEC) filings, the funds received by MoneyGram may… Read More

February 25, 2020 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Over 3.1 billion digital currency transactions were conducted across more than 20 different blockchain-based platforms during the past decade, according to a firm that monitors the Ethereum transaction mempool.  The research, carried out by San Francisco-headquartered Blocknative, a company that provides real-time updates on blockchain… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global money transfer service provider MoneyGram has introduced a new service that lets users send payments in real-time, however, the new platform notably doesn’t involve the company’s business partner Ripple (which acquired $30 million in MoneyGram shares at a high premium last year). MoneyGram’s management… Read More

February 6, 2020 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a San Francisco-based Fintech firm,  has confirmed its new partnership with International Money Express (Intermex), a Nasdaq-listed remittance company. Intermex will reportedly be using Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) solution, which uses XRP, the world’s third-largest digital asset by market cap, to conduct cross-border transactions…. Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 5:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stephen Pair, CEO at BitPay, a leading cryptocurrency payments processor, recently revealed that the platform will begin supporting additional digital assets. Pai confirmed that BitPay was also looking into integrating the Lighting Network (LN), a protocol for a layer-two payments network aimed at expediting Bitcoin… Read More

February 1, 2020 @ 4:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Japan-headquartered SBI Holdings, a major financial services company, has reportedly invested $20 million in OpenLegacy Technologies, a US-based software development company that streamlines the API integration process of core banking systems. Citi, FIS and BNP Paribas-Cardif are notably among the major clients for OpenLegacy’s platform,… Read More

January 25, 2020 @ 9:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO at privately-held Fintech firm Ripple, recently indicated that the San Francisco-based startup might launch an initial public offering (IPO) within the next year. While attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Garlinghouse reportedly told the Wall Street Journal (on January… Read More

January 22, 2020 @ 9:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BRD, a digital currency wallet developer that has received investments from US-based Fintech Ripple and Japanese financial services company SBI Holdings, has branched out into the enterprise blockchain industry. BRD’s latest initiative, called “Blockset,” aims to provide services to traditional banks, financial services providers and… Read More

January 15, 2020 @ 10:44 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The new chair of the Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) has told Chedder Media that his agency is continuing to work closely with the SEC to establish definitions and jurisdiction when it comes to cryptocurrencies- though these have not yet been set. Since he… Read More

January 9, 2020 @ 2:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fintech forward bank Siam Commercial Bank (SBC) has partnered with blockchain firm Ripple, according to a blog post. SBC is Thailand’s oldest bank and has established itself as willing to push forward with Fintech partnerships. According to Ripple, SCB and Ripple will work together to… Read More

December 30, 2019 @ 2:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ripple, a provider of enterprise blockchain solutions for payments, recently announced its cryptocurrency predictions for 2020. The company’s executive team discussed their thoughts about digital currency and what they expect in the upcoming year. Sharing his thoughts, CEO of Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse, stated: “I think… Read More

December 20, 2019 @ 10:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ripple, a provider of enterprise blockchain solutions for payments, announced on Friday it secured $200 million through its Series C funding round, which was led by Tetragon with participation from SBI Holdings and Route 66 Ventures. Founded in 2012, Ripple claims it provides one frictionless… Read More