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Cross-Border Payment Efforts Look To The Blockchain And Beyond

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Separately, in other company news, Canadian FinTech Buckzy Payments announced its launch earlier this week, eyeing international payments through what it has termed a “safe, secure and convenient ecosystem.”. The company said it facilitates international payments, with funds reaching recipients in less than five minutes.

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Santander, Ripple to roll out DLT-based payments in Q1 2018

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(The Paypers) Banco Santander , a large Spanish banking group, has teamed up with Ripple to debut distributed ledger technology (DLT) for international payments for its retail customers in Q1 2018.

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Singapore’s Big Week In Blockchain Progress

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The nation’s excitement over distributed ledger technology (DLT) cannot be ignored. Singapore’s central bank also announced a new agreement with the central bank of the Philippines to explore how blockchain could facilitate international payments between their markets.

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Deep Dive: Emerging Response To B2B, P2P Cross-Border Payments Pain

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Any complications cause major headaches, and international payments are often more involved and costly than those made domestically. They frequently face delays and rack up fees as they pass through multiple FIs, and parties making these payments often wrestle with currency conversions and value fluctuations.

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Against The Odds, A Few Blockchain Projects See The Light Of Day

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Even some of the largest proponents of blockchain agree that distributed ledger technology (DLT) is still in its early days, and its impact on the financial services market probably won’t be fully understood for some time.

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Blockchain Makes It Out Of Piloting — Now What?

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If 2017 was the year of blockchain experimentation, 2018 is the year that makes or breaks some of those projects, with a lucky few emerging from pilot tests and into the real world. Only a handful of working blockchain applications are live today. Earlier this year, the U.K.’s However, executives may not be convinced just yet.

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Amex Inadvertently Confirms Ripple Blockchain Platform Plans

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The industry’s budget for blockchain jumped 67 percent last year, researchers found, with a tenth of financial services companies reporting that they spend more than $10 million on distributed ledger technology (DLT). ” The job opening is for a Sales Coordinator, reports said.