Tag: xCurrent
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Ripple Vs. SWIFT: The Competition Intensifies As SWIFT Launches Solution To Challenge The Blockchain
After a lot of rumors floating in the crypto community back in 2018 which were claiming that Ripple and SWIFT will eventually team up, things became clear. Ripple addressed these allegations, highlighting that Ripple’s plan is to compete with SWIFT and address all its flaws. Ripple has been intensifying its efforts to overtake the traditional…
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Ripple Plans To Conquer Global Payments Via Its Products xRapid And xCurrent
Ripple‘s plans with its products xRapid and xCurrent are quite bold, but they are beginning to materialize quickly. In a brand new interview, Ripple addresses the growth of the company’s payment solutions xRapid and xCuurent. Marcus Treacher, Ripple’s global head of strategic had an interview with The Asian Banker and both products are growing at a…
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American Express Announces That Ripple Powers Cross-Border Transactions In A Few Seconds
American Express unveils the results of a pilot test of Ripple’s xCurrent solution for cross-border payments. Ripple can improve international payments During the Wings of Change Europe conference in Madrid, Amex general manager of corporate payments Carlos Carriedo said that Ripple’s tech could significantly improve international payments. “We did a pilot. We did a test,…
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Siam Commercial Bank Is Using Crypto To Power Payments, Says Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse – Hinting At XRP?
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse stated that one of its Asian partners is now using crypto to power their cross-border payments. We’re referring at Siam Commercial Bank which is already using Ripple’s product xCurrent in order to power real-time payments between Japan and Thailand. During the Singapore FinTech Festival, Ripple’s CEO stated that the bank takes…
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Ripple Upgrades American Express And Santander – New Access To xRapid Is Available, But No One Actually Uses It Yet
Ripple started to roll out the new version of xCurrent to some of its clients, and the main ones are Santander and American Express. Rolling out xCurrent 4.0 The new version of xCurrent is 4.0, and it provides financial giants the option to plug into xRapid which is Ripple’s cross-border payment solution that’s powered by XRP…
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Ripple Facilitates The Integration Of XRP By Customers; Dilip Rao To Speak At The Seminar Of The World Bank
XRP, the second largest crypto by market cap with a market value of $14,300,905,105 on CoinMarketCap has been retreating amidst the global crypto sell-off, but it still manages to resist pretty well compared to its rivals. Ripple is rolling out a new version of xCurrent Ripple is currently rolling out a new version of its popular…
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Former eBay Chief Says Ripple’s Products Could Be Essential For The Future Of e-Commerce
Former eBay chief product officer R.J. Pittman says that Ripple, xRapid and XRP could become extremely important for the role in the e-commerce growth. Ripple could play an important role in e-commerce During Ripple’s recent Swell conference which took place in San Francisco, Pittman said that only about 10-20% of all transactions in the US…
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Ripple Brings xCurrent To China And Teams Up With AmEx And LianLian Venture
Ripple just penetrated China’s market with the approval of LianLian’s joint venture American Express to process card payments. It seems that China eventually approved AmEx’s operation and this makes it the very first American company that has direct access to the China e-commerce market. AmEx will be able to resolve payments and transactions in Yuan,…
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XRP-powered xRapid Enjoys Enhanced Traction – Ripple’s Asheesh Birla Announces That Banks Using xCurrent Plan To Upgrade To xRapid
Currently there are a lot of banks that are using Ripple’s xCurrent tech and it seems that they’re looking to upgrade to the company’s product that is powered by XRP, xRapid, says Ripple’s senior vice president of product management Asheesh Birla. Birla was interviewed by the financial outlet The Banker and they made the interview…
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SBI Ripple Asia’s MoneyTap App Based on xCurrent Rolled Out In Japan
MoneyTap app is consumer-focused blockchain money transfer application for Android and iOS devices. The platform, developed by SBI Ripple Asia, rolled out in Japan. As reported by Ripple, the MoneyTap app is the brainchild of SBI Ripple Asia, helped by several partner banks. Also, a new website has been established for this application where it says that…