US Banks Announce Ripple Protocol Integration
Ripple Labs has sealed new partnerships that will bring its Ripple protocol to two US banks. According to the company's 24th September announcement, Kansas-based CBW Bank and Cross River Bank, located in New Jersey, will be the first American banks to adopt Ripple's open-source distributed transaction infrastructure. The news comes several months after Ripple inked its first deal with the banking sector, when German bank Fidor became the first institution of its kind to integrate the Ripple protocol. Like Fidor, CBW Bank and Cross River Bank will now be able to tap Ripple's low-cost....
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