Why SWIFT’s Latest Global Payments Infrastructure Is Bullish For XRP Holders

The long-debated question of whether XRP could ever integrate into SWIFT’s global payments infrastructure may have been answered. Recent analysis from crypto researchers reveals that the token is not waiting for a direct partnership with SWIFT. Instead, Ripple’s technology is making inroads through a network of third-party fintech providers that already connect to SWIFT, offering […]

A fresh round of XRP speculation is building around an old question: what happens if SWIFT’s modernization push ends up intersecting with infrastructure built for blockchain-based settlement? In a post on X on March 10, DropCoin developer Bird argued that the market may be underestimating how ISO 20022, tokenization, and shared-ledger infrastructure could eventually strengthen the case for the XRP Ledger in institutional finance. Bird’s core point is not that SWIFT is about to replace its own network with XRP or the XRP Ledger. It is that the direction of travel across global payments....

This seemingly fight-or-flight response to blockchain’s rising ubiquity may be too little, too late. SWIFT, the Brussels-based interbank cooperative, has unveiled its first active instant cross-border payment connection — a move that could have major implications for the global payments landscape. The cooperative announced Thursday that United Kingdom-based Lloyds Banking Group has become the first to connect with SWIFT gpi Instant, the high-speed cross-border rail that settles payments in seconds. The payment system connects SWIFT gpi with the U.K.’s Faster Payments infrastructure,....

Ethereum co-founder and ConsenSys chief Joseph Lubin appeared on Bloomberg Crypto on October 7 and confirmed that ConsenSys is building the prototype for SWIFT’s new blockchain-based shared ledger—an initiative that, according to SWIFT’s own announcement last week at Sibos in Frankfurt, will bolt a permissioned, always-on ledger into the global messaging cooperative’s infrastructure and natively […]

Crypto pundit Pumpius has explained how the XRP Ledger fits into SWIFT’s plans to process on-chain payments through its partnership with banks. This came as the pundit alleged that SWIFT plans to use the network as the front end rather than its own distributed ledger.  XRP Ledger’s Role In SWIFT’s Plan For On-Chain Transactions In […]