Tag "Ripple"
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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Ripple to Double Staff Strength in Singapore
According to a report by Business Times (paywall), Ripple will be doubling its staff strength from 12 to 24 this year. This is against the backdrop of an increased rate adoption by its customers from Asia including the likes of
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Ripple Backs Philippine-Focused Remittance Firm SendFriend in $1.7M Funding
SendFriend, a Philippine-focused remittance market startup, has raised up to US$1.7 million capital in a venture round backed by blockchain giant Ripple also known as the cryptocurrency XRP. Other leading investors include the MIT Lab, Mastercard Foundation, Barclays, Techstars, Mahindra
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Ripple Selects Singapore as its Latest Partner for University Blockchain Initiative
Ripple announced the latest group of partners to join its University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), an initiative to accelerate academic research, technical development and innovation in related fields—blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital payments. UBRI aims to foster an increase in blockchain-based academic
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17 E-Wallets in The Philippines You Should Know
“A way to carry your money inside your cellphone”. This is perhaps the simplest meaning of an e-wallet as defined by Philippine-based mobile money service GCash. For the past few years, different companies such as telcos, banks, fintech startups, financial
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Ripple Secures Their First Malaysian Bank Partnership with CIMB
CIMB Group and Ripple have entered into a strategic collaboration to enable instant cross border payments across its various markets. On the back of this partnership, CIMB will join Ripple’s network RippleNet, which will facilitate access to other RippleNet members
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Philippines: BSP Accredits 6th Virtual Currency Exchange
The Philippine central bank has issued another virtual currency exchange (VCE) license to a blockchain company, now the 6th in the country, even as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has set the launching of its draft of crypto-trading rules.
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