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Blockchain Technology Is Game Changing
Gaming is a $140 billion global industry. This massive scale is driven largely by digital economies created through in-game virtual purchases that unlock specific game features, unique abilities and characters and items, among other…
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On Campus: Kyoto University Professor Envisions Long-Tail Impact of Blockchain Study
Professor Naoyuki Iwashita was a crypto finance expert long before the craze of 2017—in fact, before it was even invented. As one of Japan’s leading economists and a financial expert, he began helping the Central Bank of Japan…
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Global Payments That Finally Work
Vice President of Product Marketing, Kevin Mole Swell 2019 opened with a powerful quote from our CEO Brad Garlinghouse, “To fix the friction in payments, we need to reset the plumbing by resetting the fundamental architecture of how…
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TransferGo Partners With Ripple to Offer Global Real-Time Payments Everywhere to Everyone
TransferGo Co-Founder and CEO, Daumantas Dvilinskas In 2018, TransferGo partnered with Ripple on a program to help Indian migrant workers send money home to their families faster than ever. Today, the company can transfer funds from a…
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International Payments Specialist Mercury FX Uses Ripple to Access Inaccessible Markets
Mercury FX is an international payments specialist with offices in London, Hong Kong and South Africa. The company joined RippleNet to speed up transfers, lower costs and open up new markets that were previously too expensive to access.…
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Swell 2019: How DBS Group Transformed Into a 20,000+ Person Startup Company
During a time of increased competition from within the banking sector and fintech startups, DBS Group CEO and Director Piyush Gupta helped to usher in a period of digital transformation—bringing the financial institution to the forefront…
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The Ripple Drop: Highlights From the Inaugural UBRI Connect and Xpring Hackathon
This episode of The Ripple Drop features discussions from Xpring’s Interoperability Hackathon and the inaugural UBRI Connect conference, both held at the University of California, Berkeley. Xpring’s Interoperability HackathonThe…
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Swell 2019: BeeTech is Saving Customers More Than $14 Million in Transaction Fees with RippleNet
More than three million Brazilians live abroad, almost one million foreigners live in Brazil and roughly 200,000 businesses have headquarters in the country—amounting to $1.5 trillion in global payment transactions to and from Brazil, in…
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Swell 2019: How bKash Makes Banking Accessible to 36 Million in Bangladesh
Citizens of Bangladesh face large financial challenges. Too many have little to no access to services at traditional financial institutions. Enter bKash Ltd., one of the country’s most popular mobile payment providers. In just over a…
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Swell 2019: MoneyGram CEO Says 10% of Transactions Between Mexico and U.S. Use On-Demand Liquidity
In June 2019, MoneyGram, one of the world’s largest money transfer companies, announced its plans to implement On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) through RippleNet. Less than six months later, MoneyGram Chairman and CEO Alex Holmes announced on…
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