Ripple Donates $10M to Mercy Corps for Increasing Financial Inclusion

Ripple continues its effort to bring financial inclusion to struggling markets. Ripple announced a contribution of $10 million to Mercy Corps to help it use digital assets in its work on financial inclusion in emerging markets during the annual Swell conference.Mercy Corps is a non-governmental, humanitarian aid organization that aims to create economic opportunities in countries where the financial system isn’t operating properly. The organization claims to have assisted over 220 million people survive various humanitarian conflicts. According to an announcement, Mercy Corps will partner....

Bitstamp has announced the inclusion of Ripple crypto-asset to its exchange offering across the EU. Bitstamp, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchange platform has started supporting Ripple. By including Ripple, the platform now supports two different cryptocurrencies. The growing popularity of Bitcoin led to the creation of hundreds of altcoins. Among those, only a handful of them are quite popular and have a decent user base. Ripple is one of those popular altcoins, currently holding the third position in terms of market capitalization. Bitstamp announced the inclusion of new....

A Cameroonian fintech start-up, Ejara, has raised $2 million to pioneer the usage of crypto and investment services in French-speaking African countries. Coinshares Ventures and Anthemis Group led the funding round in which they were joined by Mercy Corps Ventures, Lateral Capital, Lofty Inc Capital, and Netx Fund. Using Crypto to Protect Savings in Francophone Africa According to a report, the start-up, which was founded by Cameroonian Nelly Chatue-Diop, wants to “level this playing field for the average French-speaking African so they can invest as little as $9 (CFA5,000).”....

It is not surprising most of the countries seeing success in the financial inclusion department are busy areas for Bitcoin as well. Financial inclusion is not a topic most developing countries in the world can deal with right now. In some regions, very few people have convenient access to a bank account. However, thanks to the boom in mobile smart devices, financial inclusion becomes easier to achieve. In fact, the countries focusing on these efforts are also seeing a significant Bitcoin growth as of late. Financial Inclusion Matters To Many Countries. According to the statistics outlined....

The company claimed its CBDC solution would allow Bhutan's central bank to deploy a digital ngultrum "without compromising financial stability or monetary policy objectives.” The Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan is partnering with Ripple to pilot a central bank digital currency in the mountainous kingdom.In a Wednesday announcement, Ripple Labs said Bhutan’s central bank would be taking advantage of the company’s private ledger to issue and manage a digital ngultrum. According to Ripple, the move was motivated by the Royal Monetary Authority’s, or RMA’s, effort to improve cross-border....