Ripple Partners with Payment Service Provider SBI Remit to Simplify Japan-Thailand Remittances

[Ripple cooperates with payment service provider SBI Remit to simplify Japan-Thailand remittances] On August 16th, Ripple announced a new joint project with Japanese payment service provider SBI Remit to simplify Japan-Thailand remittances. Under the project, Japanese payment provider SBI Remit will allow Thais living in Japan to instantly send money back home using RippleNet technology. Thailand's Siam Commercial Bank will participate in the joint venture on behalf of the Thai side.

Other news:

SBI Holdings CEO: Suggests Ripple to partner with multinational corporations: Yoshitaka Kitao, CEO of Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings, has advised Ripple to partner with financial institutions as well as multinational corporations. Blockchain applications to manage supply chains will become an even more pressing issue in the world after the coronavirus outbreak, he said, and the SBI has seen "supply chain disruptions" during the coronavirus: "We realized we were on the brink of mask supply." How dependent on China. We are in serious trouble.” Kitao believes that the transparency and traceability provided by Ripple will be even more important in the future. (Cointelegraph)[2020/5/11]

News | Ripple senior software developer Evan Schwartz announced his departure: Golden Finance reported that on January 2, Evan Schwartz, a senior software developer at the cryptocurrency company Ripple, announced that he would leave the company. He has been with Ripple for about six and a half years and will continue to cheer for the Ripple team outside. Schwartz previously co-invented the Interledger protocol. Schwartz assured the XRP community that he will continue to participate in the Interledger project and web monetization platform Coil. [2020/1/3]

News | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay participates in Ripple University Blockchain Research Program: R.K. Shyamasundar, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, said that research on blockchain will help to train the next generation to adapt to large-scale and cross-industry applications. entrepreneur. Shyamasundar explains IIT Bombay and its reasons for participating in the University of Ripple Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), an effective way to better integrate interdisciplinary research on blockchain, which can expose students to real-time projects such as running validators, and be more effective to better train the next generation of blockchain entrepreneurs; and another because it enables IIT Bombay to run their own XRP validator on campus. Shyamasundar said his team and students have been using the Bitcoin consensus protocol, Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus, XRP Ledger consensus, and various other protocols to build healthcare, land management, and financial services applications. [2019/5/17]