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European Banking Authority Emphasizes Promise of Distributed Ledgers

May 14, 2015 | By Alec Liu

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a new research paper analyzing the innovation and use cases of distributed consensus ledgers.

The Life of a Ripple Market Maker

May 13, 2015 | By Alec Liu

For Anthony Milas, a musician from New Zealand, market making on Ripple started as a curious hobby that developed into something more substantial.

The European Union’s Mission to Transform Payments

May 12, 2015 | By Alec Liu

For the world’s largest economy by GDP, the final challenge toward unification was always going to be figuring out how to allow money to move freely between European nations.

Ripple Labs Managing Director Dilip Rao Talks Asia-Pacific Expansion

May 11, 2015 | By Chloe Hunt

The office was established in response to growing demand for Ripple’s real-time settlement protocol in the region, and to more directly connect interested Ripple Labs partners in the US and Europe with Asian Pacific markets.

Future Proof: Digitizing Singapore Banking for Cross-border Payments

May 7, 2015 | By Alec Liu

The inevitable rise of Southeast Asia means that digitizing banks and mastering cross-border payments is the key to Singapore's economic future.

CGAP: Why an Open Payments Infrastructure Matters for Financial Inclusion

May 1, 2015 | By Chloe Hunt

While the financial services sector has begun adopting open protocols to enable interconnectivity, the payments sector has yet to adopt a fully open settlement protocol to enable global connectivity, leaving networks siloed and lacking interoperability.