SWIFT 2.0? Ripple Signs Major Banks to Blockchain Payments Deal
Today, Ripple announced that they have struck an accord, a first of its kind, with several major banking interests to created the GPSG, or the Global Payments Steering Group. Bitcoin has been the king of digital coins for a long time, and no altcoin has really been able to make a mainstream dent in its domain to this point. Ethereum had its run to start the year, but it devised its own roadblock to success called DAO that it is still trying to recover from. Rather, Ripple has been working in the background quietly, making friends in the banking industry and influencing people to use it for....
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Ripple has formed a six-bank Global Payments Steering Group (GPSG), calling it “the first interbank group for global payments based on distributed financial technology.” A New SWIFT Challenger. Although the announcement does not mention it explicitly, the new network is a potential challenger to SWIFT. First activated in the 1970s, SWIFT is the global....
Thursday, Blockchain company Ripple announced that it had raised $55 mln in funding. Accenture Ventures, SCB Digital Ventures, the venture arm of Siam Commercial Bank and Santander Innoventures are just a few of the investors who participated in the Series B funding. Additionally, Ripple has secured partnerships with major banks, including Standard Chartered, BMO Financial Group, and Shanghai Huarui Bank. In the near future Ripple plans to partner with even more banks, which are planned to use the service it provides to improve cross-border payments. Overall, Ripple has received over $93....
Ripple từ lâu đã bày tỏ tham vọng thách thức và cuối cùng thay thế SWIFT như nền tảng cốt lõi của các khoản thanh toán xuyên biên giới toàn cầu. CEO Brad Garlinghouse của Ripple đã công khai chỉ trích sự kém hiệu quả của SWIFT và nhấn mạnh rằng công ty đặt mục […]
Can Swift stay relevant in a world of blockchain? Swift, founded in 1973 with the aim of standardizing how cross-border payments are sent, is the epitome of a middleman. It sits between many of the banks worldwide, making money off the fees it charges when its members sent transactions between one another. Since its founding, the number of Swift member banks has grown from 239 to more than 11,000. Last year, the "cooperative society" sent 6.1 billion financial messages on behalf of its members, earning €710m in operating revenue. Then came the blockchain, and in many ways, all....
The blockchain is transforming the way businesses are conducted across the world. What will be its effect on SWIFT, a legacy network for communication between banks that has lasted for 43 years? The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) was founded in 1973 and has provided financial institutions a means to exchange information about transactions in a secure environment. A majority of banks worldwide use the SWIFT network for international interbank messages. Why is SWIFT so successful? Prior to SWIFT, banks used telex for communications. Telex had inherent....