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Ripple Improves Access to India with Kotak Mahindra Bank
Growth in the banking sector has skyrocketed: 80% of adults have a bank account in India, a figure that has more than doubled since 2011. India has also been the ...
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Banks Turn Remittance Obstacles into Opportunities with Ripple
Over the last ten years, changes wrought from the 2008 financial crisis along with a marked increase in fraud and terrorism funding concerns, have consolidated the world’s system of correspondent ...
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Democratizing Global Payments: xRapid’s Cost Savings and Benefits
At Ripple, we want to see digital assets used in a way that goes beyond making payments faster for businesses. We want to see the technology used to create a ...
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Why Open Protocols Are the First Step in the Distributed Ledger Movement
In the 90’s, the Internet protocol (IP) caught on quickly. This standardized communications protocol along with a suite of others, such as HTTP and SMTP, allowed the Internet to interoperate ...
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American Express and Ripple at Money20/20 Europe: Changing the Cross-Border Payments Experience for SMEs
Small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make up the backbone of both dominant and emerging economies today. Yet they are the ones who are most impacted by inefficiencies in cross-border payments ...
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Ripple CEO at Money20/20 Europe: Blockchain Hype Outpaces Reality
On day one of Money20/20 Europe, leaders from the world’s biggest banks to newly minted FinTech startups focused on two themes – innovation and partnership – with much of the ...
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Ripple Introduces the University Blockchain Research Initiative
Interest in blockchain is soaring, with a groundswell of activity taking place on the campuses of the world’s top universities. From new business use cases — such as making cross-border ...
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Live Transaction: Santander’s One Pay FX
Santander recently released One Pay FX — the first mobile application for international payments powered by blockchain technology. Millions of Santander’s customers in Europe now have access to same day, ...
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Schwartz Rides Again: Tour de Schwartz EU
David Schwartz — Ripple’s Chief Cryptographer and one of the original architects of the XRP Ledger — is hitting the road again. This time he’s headed to Europe. From late ...
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Transaction Banking: Good Enough Is Not Enough
The words “innovation” and “disruption” have been almost synonymous with discussion of new technology in the payments industry over the last year. Yet, at recent banking events — including the annual ...
