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September 30, 2022 @ 1:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

While the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) keeps battling the courts, the courts keep telling the SEC to hand over the “emails and drafts” pertaining to the speech given by former SEC Corporate Finance Director William (Bill) Hinman discussing crypto in June of 2018. In… Read More

September 26, 2022 @ 9:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, the provider of enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, announced that I-Remit, the largest non-bank remittance service provider in the Philippines, will “expand its use of Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) solution to improve its cross-border treasury flows.” As a partner of Ripple since 2018, I-Remit… Read More

August 19, 2022 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, the provider of enterprise blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions, announced the launch of RippleNet’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) in Brazil with Travelex Bank, “the first bank in Latin America to utilize ODL.” Travelex is the first bank registered and “approved by the Central Bank of Brazil… Read More

August 13, 2022 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco’s blockchain payments Fintech Ripple Labs Inc, which is currently involved in an extensive legal battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is reportedly interested in acquiring the assets of bankrupt cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network. This, according to statements shared by… Read More

July 26, 2022 @ 1:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, which claims to be the leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions,  announced a partnership with Singapore-based major payments institution FOMO Pay, which will “utilize Ripple’s crypto-enabled enterprise technology to improve its cross-border treasury flows.” On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) leverages XRP, the digital asset “built… Read More

May 19, 2022 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, which claims to be the “leader” in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, announced a partnership with FINCI, the Lithuanian online international money transfer provider, “to deliver instant and cost-effective retail remittances and business to business (B2B) payments via RippleNet’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), which leverages… Read More

April 15, 2022 @ 4:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

A recent ruling in the ongoing legal battle between Ripple and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pertaining to the issuance of XRP and the allegation by the Commission it is in fact an unregistered security took a turn in favor of Ripple this past… Read More

March 19, 2022 @ 10:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, which claims to be the leader in enterprise-grade blockchain and crypto solutions, is committing 1B XRP to “accelerate development and new use cases on the XRP Ledger (XRPL).” The fund is “an extension to the XRPL Grants program which launched in 2021 and, to… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

STASIS has distributed a statement indicating it will issue a Euro stablecoin using the XRP Ledger (XRPL). XRPL was created by three engineers – David Schwartz, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto. At one point, they were joined by Chris Larsen and a company was formed… Read More

February 6, 2022 @ 1:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Earlier this week, payments platform Modulr announced a partnership with Ripple, which claims to be the leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, in order to enable payments into the UK and Europe. Trust Payments, the international unified payments group, is reportedly the first customer… Read More

January 17, 2022 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The term “gray market” might conjure up images of “nefarious” actors exchanging cash in “shadowy alleys,” the team at American Fintech Ripple writes in a blog post. In reality, however, gray markets have become an “unfortunate necessity” for those entities that may lack the financial… Read More

August 31, 2021 @ 11:58 am By JD Alois  |  

The ongoing legal battle between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple and its founders continues to work its way through the halls of justice.  While the SEC continues to pursue its belief that XRP (the digital currency created by Ripple) has always been… Read More

July 21, 2021 @ 4:18 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Ripple better up its game if it wants to stay top of mind when it comes to settlement systems, the CEO of tokenization platform STASIS warns. STASIS is a tokenization platform, including smart contract creation, that claims deep expertise in the current regulatory environment. It… Read More

July 11, 2021 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Asheesh Birla, GM – RippleNet at American Fintech Ripple, which is currently involved in a lawsuit from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), recently published a blog post, titled, “Evolving RippleNet for a Tokenized Future.” Birla writes that cryptocurrency and blockchain or DLT are… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 12:11 pm By Chris Sloan  |  

In December 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint in a New York federal court against Ripple Labs, Inc. and two of its executives alleging that Ripple had sold $1.3 billion in XRP cryptocurrency tokens in a series of unregistered securities offerings…. Read More

April 29, 2021 @ 10:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Hogan, Parnter at Hogan & Hogan, reveals that CryptoLaw has shared American Fintech Ripple’s response to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) letter which is disputing (essentially) “parts of the Court Order” from earlier in April 2021 that are “related to internal communications.”… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 4:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Back in December of 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) posted a complaint alleging that Ripple engaged in the sale of an unregistered security. The enforcement action included Christian Larsen, the company’s co-founder, executive chairman of its board, and former CEO, and Bradley Garlinghouse,… Read More

March 29, 2021 @ 11:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ripple has agreed to acquire a 40% stake in cross-border payments Fintech Tranglo, according to a public release. Tranglo, based in Malaysia but operates across Asia, reports 1300 partners having completed 20 million transactions at $4 billion in value. Tranglo claims to be one of… Read More

February 5, 2021 @ 7:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Ripple notes that in May 2020, McKinsey had identified that consumer and enterprise digital adoption had “matured five years, in a matter of eight weeks.” For financial institutions, digital technologies — such as Cloud-enabled models — provide the flexibility and scalability needed to… Read More

January 27, 2021 @ 6:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The LuLu Exchange in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has confirmed that they’re teaming up with American Fintech Ripple (which is the subject of a major enforcement action from the US SEC) and Federal Bank in order to enhance real-time payments capabilities from the UAE… Read More