Tag "Ripple"
Bhutan Set to Pilot Carbon-Neutral CBDCs With Ripple in Financial Inclusion Push
The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA), Bhutan’s central bank, announced that it will pilot a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in phases with Ripple’s CBDC solution. Building atop the country’s payments infrastructure and capabilities, this new initiative will tap Ripple’s CBDC
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GME Remittance Joins RippleNet for Payments Push From South Korea to Thailand
Global Money Express (GME Remittance), a non-bank remittance service provider in South Korea, has joined Ripple‘s blockchain-based payments network, RippleNet to accelerate and scale payments from South Korea to Thailand. This partnership was established through SBI Ripple Asia, a joint
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Ripple Joins Singapore NFT Marketplace Mintable’s US$13 Million Series A Fundraise
Ripple announced that it has made an investment in Mintable, a Singaporean non-fungible tokens (NFTs) marketplace that allows users to seamlessly create, buy, and sell digital items using fiat or cryptocurrency, during its US$13 million Series A funding round. The
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Ripple Appoints Former Uber Exec to Lead Southeast Asian Operations
Ripple announced the appointment of Brooks Entwistle as Managing Director of Southeast Asia to lead and scale the company’s operations in the region. Based out of Ripple’s Southeast Asia headquarters in Singapore, Brooks Entwistle brings three decades of senior management
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Thai Fintech DeeMoney Partners with Ripple for Cross Border Money Transfers
DeeMoney, a fintech company based in Thailand specializing in digital cross-border money transfers, today announced its platform is now processing live transactions, in partnership with Ripple. DeeMoney is the first non-bank institution in Thailand to use RippleNet. As recent as
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Azimo and Ripple Teams Up for Cross Border Remittance to The Philippines
Azimo, a European based money transfer service, announced today that it has partnered with Ripple, the enterprise blockchain solution for global payments. Azimo has launched its first service using Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity solution (ODL) to send faster and cheaper cross-border
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Thai’s Oldest Banks Teams up With Ripple For Remittance
Thailand’s oldest bank has partnered with Ripple to create SCB Easy—a mobile application that runs on Ripple to deliver instant, low-cost cross-border payments. Eight of the top ten countries using mobile payments can be found in Asia. According to a recent
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Ripple Partners SBI Remit to Launch Blockchain Remittance Between Japan and Vietnam
SBI Ripple Asia Co., Ltd. and SBI Remit Co., Ltd., an international money transfer service business operator announced that the companies have started the first Japan-Vietnam money transfer service in real currency utilizing DLT, with a Vietnamese bank, Tien Phong
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Philippine Based Crypto Startup PDAX Receives Funding Boost from BitMEX
Philippines Digital Asset Exchange (PDAX), a locally based cryptocurrency exchange platform recently received an undisclosed sum of funding from BitMEX Ventures. This news follows a recent investment by Consensys into PDAX. According to BitMEX co-founder and CEO Arthur Hayes, they
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Philippines Approves 3 More Crypto Exchanges Amid Soaring Bitcoin Prices
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has green-lit another 3 cryptocurrency exchanges to operate in the Philippines. The new licensed firms include Bexpress Inc, Coinville Phils Inc. and Aba Global Philippines Inc. This brings the total number of licensed cryptocurrency exchange in
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