Ripple Labs Targets Asia amid ‘Strategic Shift’ in Regional Trade from USD to RMB
Dilip Rao, Managing Director of Ripple Labs in Sydney, has announced that Ripple will continue to expand its “highly demanded” real-time settlement protocol in the Asia-Pacific region. Ripple appointed fin-tech veteran and experienced salesman Dilip Rao for the new Ripple Labs Asia Pacific subsidiary back in April. According to Ripple, the company established the new facility to support the “growing demand for Ripple’s real-time settlement protocol in the region” and to connect with Ripple Labs partners in the Asia-Pacific market. In a press release, Rao explained that countries in the....
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Payment networking company Ripple Labs recently surprised the masses by opening a new subsidiary in Sydney, Australia. According to its official press release, the San Francisco-based company was already receiving multiple requests from people beyond the Red Sea for its real-time settlement protocol Ripple. They therefore decided to do so by launching the aforementioned subsidiary, a step that would also help connecting Ripple Labs users in the US and Europe to make cross border payments to their counterparts in Asia Pacific region, and vice-versa. For a moment, one could also see the huge....
Ripple Labs has shared its plans to expand to the Asia Pacific region by opening a digital currency office in Sydney, Australia. The company, which was formerly known as OpenCoin, developed the Ripple protocol which interconnects the world's financial systems to enable the secure, real-time transfer of funds in any currency. Ripple Labs is a San Francisco-based startup funded by investors from Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, IDG Capital Partners, and Core Innovation Capital. Digital Currency Acceptance in Asia Pacific. With its latest move to open a digital currency office in....
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