11th June 2019 – Ripple, the global leader in enterprise blockchain solutions for cross-border payments, is launching operations in Brazil to expand its footprint in South America. In addition, Ripple is also bringing on seasoned FinTech entrepreneur and executive Luiz Antonio Sacco as Managing Director to drive strategy and build the Ripple ecosystem in the region.
Ripple will exhibit at CIAB Febraban, from 11th to 13th June, where it will showcase RippleNet, a global payments network that makes it easy for financial institutions and payment providers to send cross-border payments worldwide.
The current payment infrastructure is fragmented and unreliable, making cross-border payments slow, inefficient and costly for banks and businesses. As a result, payments take an average of three to five days to settle, have a six percent failure rate and are expensive, especially when dealing with low value, high volume transactions. With RippleNet, customers can address these challenges:
“In January, Ripple surpassed 200 customers on RippleNet. The company is experiencing rapid customer growth across all markets, and is launching in Brazil in response to high customer demand in South America. We are fortunate to have Luiz onboard to expand our presence in the region and help our customers address the challenges of cross-border payments,” says Eric van Miltenburg, SVP of Global Operations.
Ripple already has more than a dozen Brazilian financial institutions and money transfer companies on RippleNet, such as:
“We’re excited to grow our ecosystem in the region and bring additional financial institutions onto RippleNet to help provide excellent, efficient cross-border payment experiences for their customers,” says Luiz Antonio Sacco, Managing Director – South America. “Brazil is a leader in FinTech innovation and positioned to forge a path for the rest of Latin America to follow.”
Ripple is experiencing dramatic growth, adding an average of two to three new financial institutions to RippleNet each week. The company saw more transactions on the network in Q1 ’19 than it did in all of 2018. In 2019, it is focused on growing its customer base and team in Brazil, and across South America including in countries such as Chile, Peru and Argentina.
Ripple’s efforts in Brazil go beyond delivering software solutions to financial institutions. Last year it launched the University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) to support academic research, technical development and innovation in blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital payments.
Ripple committed resources to top tier Brazilian universities, including University of São Paulo and Fundação Getulio Vargas. The company is working with over 15 professors at USP and FGV to help support academic research and technical development across disciplines including law, business and engineering.
“We believe that academic institutions will play a key role driving the blockchain industry forward. USP and FGV are innovative, forward-thinking institutions that are investing in blockchain research to explore new use cases and help prepare students for future jobs in this space,” Sacco concludes.
Other leading institutions included in the programme are Stanford, University College London (UCL), University of Pennsylvania, University of Waterloo and IIT Bombay.
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