https://twitter.com/sbigroup/status/865453698519937026"Internal and external exchange centralized consortium" Participating financial institution additions - 3 rows newly participated, participating financial institutions to 59 lines - (SBI Holdings, SBI Ripple Asia) - PR information | SBI Holdings http: //
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http://www.sbigroup.co.jp/news/pr/2017/0519_10673.html SBI Ripple Asia Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Yoshitaka Kitao), a subsidiary of SBI Holdings Co., Ltd. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Co., Ltd., the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Co., Ltd., and the Board of Directors: Takafumi Okita) to the "consortium of domestic and foreign exchange" (hereafter "Consortium", secretariat: SBI Holdings · SBI Ripple Asia) We will inform you that we will join the new.
Along with innovative changes in ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in recent years and changes in customer behavior and social life, payment needs such as settlement 24 hours, real time, small settlement, etc. are diversifying. Also, due to transboundary e-commerce and Japanese companies' advancement to Asia, the needs of foreign exchange have changed dramatically.
The consortium aims to build a remittance infrastructure in 24 hours real time by centralizing domestic exchange and foreign exchange by utilizing new technology such as block chain · Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). In late October, it was launched with 42 banks including regional financial institutions and Internet specialized banks, etc. With participation of each row this time, 59 financial institutions participated. In this consortium, discussion on both the technical and operational aspects of the business required for domestic and foreign exchange is underway, and in March 2017, the settlement platform "RC Cloud" which handles domestic currency exchange in addition to foreign exchange as a unit, Will be completed, we will conduct more practical discussion and environment improvement with a view to commencing commercialization during the current fiscal year, while also conducting advanced experiments on virtual currency and block chain in parallel.
This consortium is accepting applications for participation by financial institutions on an ongoing basis, and participating financial institutions are expected to increase in the future.
https://blog.ledger.co/ledger-announces-xrp-support-on-nano-s-and-blue-4101eaef0a9fCelebrating the latest major price rally on XRP, and due to high demand, we are excited to announce immediate availability of XRP support of all Nano S and Blue units.
http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/05/18/ripple-xrp-six-exchange-platforms/https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/exchange/ripple-leverages-bitgo-partnership-list-xrp-six-new-platforms/"We expect 2017 will be a very strong year for XRP.”
http://www.econotimes.com/Ripple-expands-partnership-with-BitGo-to-list-XRP-on-six-new-exchanges-712488