YouTuber Gets Banned by Western Union for Life, Bitcoin Fixes This
A business owner has posted a YouTube video asserting that Western Union inexplicably banned him for life as a result of his dealings in central Africa. Bitcoin fixes this. Ban Comes...
MoneyGram Has Made ‘Millions’ Selling Ripple’s XRP
In its recently filed annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission MoneyGram reports $11.3 million in revenue as a result of its Ripple partnership. Ripple Labs pays...
Ripple Partner Reports Loss In Q4 2019
In a just-released earnings report, Ripple partner, MoneyGram, showed a USD $11.9 million loss for the fourth quarter of last year. This is the fifth consecutive quarter without a...
Bitso to Use Ripple’s ODL to Process 20 Percent of Remittances to Mexico
Using Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity, Mexican crypto exchange, and remittance service, Bitso plans to process 20% of all cross-border transfers to the country. US-Mexican...
Ripple Partner MoneyGram Secures $9M Investment from Brinks
With a disastrous year firmly behind its XRP token, there’s no stopping Ripple in 2020. Its major partner MoneyGram just received a $9 million investment from NYSE-listed Brinks...
This Ripple Backed Firm is Eyeing Indian Market Dominance
MoneyGram, the cross-border payment system backed by Ripple, will aim to become a leader in carrying remittances for the Indian market. Ripple Backed MoneyGram Aims for Bigger Share of...
XRP Spikes 10% on Ripple MoneyGram Partnership News
Big partnership announcements have been thin on the ground for many of the major crypto companies recently. That changed for Ripple a few hours ago when the firm announced a strategic...
Ripple CEO: ‘Dozens’ of Major Banks Will Use XRP
Ripple — a real-time gross settlement system, currency exchange, and remittance network — will supposedly have “dozens” of banks making use of its XRP-powered...
It’s About Time Financial Institutions Consider Crypto as a Tool for Efficient Money...
Blockchain technology is causing massive disruptions across a wide range of industries, markets, and economies. Bitcoin, the most popular blockchain application has shown the world...
Ripple Just Silenced Its Critics With MoneyGram Partnership
Ripple just announced a major new partnership with MoneyGram that will see the latter pilot xRapid and XRP. When leading cryptocurrency price aggregation site CoinMarketCap removed...
Trump’s Mexico Feud Creating a Perfect Storm for Bitcoin Remittances
Mexico’s biggest cash cow is under siege as Donald J. Trump threatens to tax or halt remittances to the country in order to pay for his border wall. Western Union Shares Dive...
BitPesa Expands Bitcoin Remittance Service to Tanzania
BitPesa has made a name for itself in the world of Bitcoin-enabled remittance services. Up until this point, though, most of BitPesa’s efforts have been focused on Kenya, one of the...