lol UK has never had much of an issue with sending funds slowly/abroad anyway. the UK uses something branded "faster payment" which is alot faster then then the old BACS/SWIFT method.
again the article is falsely trying to link to bitcoin and is not actually showing off any new features. in essence its just a advertisement for a sort of westernunion2.0 which will be part of hyperledger. where its throwing in buzzwords in the attempt of getting VC funding..
in short, its nothing special and this topic should be moved to the altcoin or services section. kind of strange how a mod has not done this already