Tagged: ripple

September 20, 2019 @ 3:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last night, Seedrs, a leading UK based investment crowdfunding platform, held its inaugural alumni awards in recognition of their growing number of successfully crowdfunded companies. Over the years Seedrs has supported more than 590 businesses raise much-needed growth capital. Simultaneously, the very public process has… Read More

September 16, 2019 @ 11:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Seattle-headquartered Bitcoin kiosks and ATMs provider Coinme raised $1.5 through a Series A-1 financing round, which included contributions from the Blockchain Finance Fund, and San Francisco-based Ripple company’s initiative Xpring, which builds infrastructure for innovative blockchain projects. The funds raised will be directed toward acquiring… Read More

September 8, 2019 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

One of Pakistan’s largest financial institutions, Faysal Bank Limited (FBL) has launched a digital payments solution through a partnership with US-based  Ripple, a blockchain-based money transfer platform. FBL is one of Pakistan’s largest commercial banks with over 220 branches nationwide and assets totaling $1.5 billion…. Read More

August 14, 2019 @ 7:01 am By Cali Haan  |  

A cryptocurrency exchange called Beaxy halted trading across the board  August 12th after a high-volume sell-off of XRPs (Ripple tokens) tanked the tokens’ price on the exchange: The exchange corresponded about the suspension in a blog post, stating: “We recently experienced unusual(ly) high volume activity… Read More

July 30, 2019 @ 2:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ripple, a provider of enterprise blockchain solutions for payments, announced on Tuesday it has expanded its University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) to Japan. According to Ripple, the expansion brings on new partners including Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo. While sharing more details about… Read More

July 30, 2019 @ 8:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Ripple, one of the largest cryptocurrencies/blockchain platforms in the world, is asking Congress to be thoughtful in how they regulate digital assets going forward. In an Open Letter to Congress, Ripple management takes a very different approach in contrast to Facebook’s frontal assault with the… Read More

June 18, 2019 @ 3:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ripple, a provider of enterprise blockchain solutions for payments, announced it has formed a new strategic partnership with money transfer service, MoneyGram. Ripple has also taken a $50 million stake in MoneyGram in a push to deploy XRP. Ripple reported that through the new collaboration,… Read More

June 14, 2019 @ 6:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Another day, another crypto-hack.  From exploits to exit scams, the song remains the same – it’s just the technology that is different. The bad guys are always looking for new and devious ways to steal money from the unsuspecting. The most recent hack came courtesy… Read More

June 11, 2019 @ 10:03 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ripple, a provider of enterprise blockchain solutions for payments, announced on Tuesday it is expanding its South America footprint by opening operations in Brazil. As part of the new location’s launch, Ripple reported it is bringing on Luiz Antonio Sacco as managing director to drive strategy… Read More

June 6, 2019 @ 9:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ripple, a UK-based renewable energy platform, has successfully secured its initial £750,000 funding target on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs. The funding round was launched last month and has so far attracted more than 880 investors. As previously reported, Ripple was founded in 2017 and its… Read More

June 2, 2019 @ 2:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Frente Corretora de Câmbio, a Brazilian money transfer and remittance platform, wants to become the “Transferwise of Brazi” by leveraging Ripple to provide low-cost transfers. According to a report in Exame, Frente is the 15th largest currency brokerage in the country. Frente wants to be in… Read More

May 5, 2019 @ 9:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ripple, a UK-based renewable energy platform, is now seeking £750,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. Founded in 2017, Ripple reported that its vision is a renewable energy future owned by people, not companies. “People want to reduce their carbon footprint and they want… Read More

March 18, 2019 @ 10:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

InstaReM, a payments platform operating in over 50 countries, has closed on a USD $ 41 million Series C funding round led by Vertex Growth Fund, their first investment in Southeast Asia. James Lee, MD of Vertex Growth Fund, will be joining the Board of… Read More

March 12, 2019 @ 12:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Forte, a blockchain technology for games developer, has formed a new partnership with Ripple to create a $100 million fund for mainstream blockchain games. According to Venture Beat, this new fund will operate alongside Forte’s platform technologies and include open-source solutions designed with Ripple to… Read More

February 17, 2019 @ 10:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockchain software firm BitGo announced last week it was selected by Ripple to provide multi-signature security, advanced treasury management and additional enterprise functionality for XRP, which is the digital asset native to the Ripple Consensus Ledger (RCL). It was revealed: “Ripple is a perfect partner for BitGo… Read More

February 12, 2019 @ 2:43 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Bitcoin advocates and companies like Ripple have long been critical of slow and expensive cross-border money transfer services provided by banks and other traditional firms. Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse presides over a vast sum of publicly-tradable XRP crypto tokens which the company has used to… Read More

February 12, 2019 @ 2:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) continues to grow. Launched in June of 2018, Ripple’s global initiative now supports 29 academic partners to further accelerate academic research and development in blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital payments. Ripple has committed $50 million to the project. The Newest UBRI… Read More

February 7, 2019 @ 2:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ripple, a provider of enterprise blockchain solutions for payments, announced on Thursday new partners for its University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI). According to Ripple, the initiative was launched in 2018 and now supports 29 partners to further accelerate research as well as technical development innovation in blockchain,… Read More

January 27, 2019 @ 9:02 am By Cali Haan  |  

Ryan Selkis, CEO of cryptocurrency data analysis firm Messari, claimed on Twitter Thursday that he has received three threatening phone calls from disgruntled “Ripple” (XRP) investors angry about a recent report Messari published claiming Ripple inflates its market cap figures. Selkis later tweeted that he… Read More

January 17, 2019 @ 10:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Institute for Fintech Research, Tsinghua University (THUIFR) has partnered with Ripple to launch the Blockchain Technology Research Scholarship Program (BRSP) for graduate students in China. Based on the academic and industrial research achievement accomplished by Fintech Lab since 2012,THUIFR  is jointly established by PBC… Read More