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RippleNet’s New Member – SBI Confirms Japan-Vietnam Remittance Service with Major TPBank

Fri, 11/15/2019 - 14:16
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Yuri Molchan
SBI Ripple Asia confirms its collaboration with major Vietnam’s TPBank to set up Japan-Vietnam remittance via Ripple
RippleNet’s New Member – SBI Confirms Japan-Vietnam Remittance Service with Major TPBank
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Earlier, U.Today reported about a partnership between the Japanese financial giant SBI and one of the largest banks in Vietnam – TPBank – regarding financial wire transfers on blockchain.

Back then, the TPBank’s CEO, Nguyen Hung, merely stated that the bank would be cooperating with SBI in the sphere of financial transactions. Now, the fact of the new remittance service between Japan and Vietnam powered by RippleNet is confirmed.

Yoshitaka Kitao, Representative of the SBI Group, said:

“The booming Vietnamese economy is one of the most attractive markets around the world. TPBank, which the SBI Group has invested in, in 2009 and owns a 19.9% share of, has achieved steady accumulation of loans and non-interest income such as settlement services, by actively utilizing cutting-edge technologies. The adoption of RippleNet will further differentiate the company from its competitors. We will also develop remittance services that incorporates crypto-assets in the future.”

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RippleNet-based payments integrating in developing countries

Vietnam is not the first Asian country where RippleNet is going to be used. On Thursday, U.Today wrote about another Ripple-powered payments company – Nium (formerly known as InstaRem) partnered with Visa Direct to conduct instant payments to Indonesia. Prior to that, the platform received a license from the Bank of Indonesia.

On the same day, it was reported that the major Japanese Softbank, Ripple’s partner, is planning to merge with the popular Japanese LINE messaging app.

Softbank owns Ripple-powered Japanese MoneyTap payments app which has recently partnered with a similar platform - PayPay. Thus, they could both benefit from this potential deal.

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Yuri is a crypto journalist interested in technology and technical innovations. He has been in crypto since 2017. Believes that blockchain and cryptocurrencies have a potential to transform the world in the future in many of its aspects. ‘Hodls’ major cryptocurrencies and has written for multiple crypto media outlets. 

His articles have been quoted by such crypto influencers as Tyler Winklevoss, John McAfee, CZ Binance, Max Keiser, etc.

Currently Yuri is a news writer at U.Today and can be contacted at yuri.molchan@u.today.