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"In a report that was published about a week ago, an insider’s statement was made public of the intention of the companies to partner pretty soon. According to the statement, the firms were having discussions and consultations with the headlines of the partnership expected to be huge when published." Has anyone seen this report? Additional sources are welcome. Source: https://smartereum.com/19667/ripple-price-prediction-2018-can-the-partnership-of-ripple-xrp-and-j-p-morgan-skyrocket-the-value-of-xrp-to-5-this-year-news-today-news-analysis-today-tue-nov-20/

So it started as a bit of wishful thinking, a hunch even, but now I think it is real. Brad meant something with his marathon comment, and I believe it was almost literal. The end of the first fortnight of 2018 and we get a partnership announcement out of the blue for Moneygram. Then just after the announcement, Brad drops this banger: He states that MG is "one step in a marathon" A marathon is 41km in Australia, but for the US a marathon is 26 miles. There are 52 weeks win a year, meaning there are 26 fortnights in a year. Is Brad going to release a partnership and/or big announcement every fortnight ? 26 announcements for 26 miles? WELL step forward to today, exactly a fortnight from the last announcement: UPDATE: So now, exactly two weeks (and I'm talking 1 hour variance) after the IDT and MercuruFX announcement, this happens. https://ripple.com/insights/lianlian-pay-joins-ripplenet-provide-faster-payments-china/ We parter with one of the leading payments providers in China! This snowball is rolling, and it's moving fast!! It's getting harder to tell me this is too speculative Let's see if I'm right again in a fortnight! Update 2 (step 4 of 26): Like clockwork and right on schedule, Ripple mark step four of the marathon. In the form of FIVE new RippleNet partners who will make use of xCurrent and xVia technologies. Who else is looking forward to steps five through 26? Update 3 (step 5 of 26) Another fortnight has passed and another awesome piece of news has come out! This time in the form of a Ripple powered mobile app! This is a huge step and will be using RippleNet to facilitate on demand domestic payments. This goes to show that even though Ripple are targeting cross-border payments; banks around the world are interested in using their tech for domestic ones too. That's another use case (*cough* bye bye Stellar *cough*) and another big step in the marathon! Can't wait to see what's next. Side note: We also had Cory Johnson from Bloomberg TV come on as Chief Market Strategist. Let's have some dried berries and a swish of water; then keep on running towards that next checkpoint in the marathon! See you next fortnight. Hmmm Just something to think about. -retry

I am now at a Paris #LegalTech mertup, and one of participants is related to the Austrian Erste Group https://www.erstegroup.com/en I asked him and got an affirmative answer that Erste is piloting one of Ripple's product (no specifics). He also said this pilot is going slowly due to intra-bank dynamics. I tried finding the "known partnerships" thread to check if Erste Group is already listed there, but could not find the thread. Mods please pardon and/or delete / move this post where it should be.

This Partnership is not new but in this time of price correction, good news are always welcome. On the link below you can have confirmation Banks (Here it's Credit Agricole, one of the biggest European Bank), are doing test with the Ripple Blockchain technology and in particulare with Ripple's Xcurrent. They will give more informations about those tests on january 30, 2018 in Paris Fintech meeting. This test is to be run for six months before the service is rolled out to the entire territory... This is real world application is very GOOD NEWS ! https://www.credit-agricole.com/en/news-channels/the-channels/group-news/credit-agricole-experimenting-with-ripple-blockchain-money-transfer-technology#.WmueyvSyCq4.twitter Update : Crédit Agricole is the second biggest Bank in France and the 3rd biggest Bank in Europe ! From some inside infos, they began the test pilote a few days ago and they plan to use it that way for the next 6 months before using it for real. From what i read, they are very happy with the first outcomes of Xcurrent and are looking forward to use Xrapid !

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So found this article today, in a danish finance magazine: https://finans.dk/erhverv/ECE10208333/maersk-i-historisk-satsning-stifter-nyt-selskab/?ctxref=ext In short (if goolge translate is no help): A.P Mærsk and IBM will partner up on a new trading platform based on blockchain technology. It will take 4-6months until it can be approved of refused. I've received rumors from internal employees regarding the use of ripple in a tone there should be taken serious, but Stellar is already in partnership with Stellar. None the less, this is some interesting times

MoneyGram International Inc. is a money transfer company based in the United States with headquarters in Dallas, Texas.It has an operations center in St. Louis Park, Minnesota and regional and local offices around the world. MoneyGram businesses are divided into two categories: Global Funds Transfers and Financial Paper Products. The company provides its service to individuals and businesses through a network of agents and financial institutions. MoneyGram is the second largest provider of money transfers in the world. The company operates in more than 200 countries with a global network of about 347,000 agent offices. Wiki：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoneyGram I think that the demand of many XRP occurs. (1)MoneyGram's global remittance market share is 5%. 5% at annual 500 billion dollar is 25 billion dollar. https://imgur.com/a/EcDVr (2)MoneyGram Sendbot gives millions of Facebook Messenger users in the United States the power to send and track money transfers through Messenger http://ir.moneygram.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=1021728 (3)117 million active PayPal account holders will be able to load, send, withdraw funds from their accounts at MoneyGram locations around the world https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121022005443/en/MoneyGram-PayPal-Agreement-Brings-Online-Physical-Worlds (4)Money transfer operators' share in Africa of Money Gram 24% https://imgur.com/a/fVRYZ (5)remittance share between the United States and Mexico of MoneyGram are 16%. https://imgur.com/a/CNn70 (6)MoneyGram Partners with R-kioski and Launches Online Transaction Staging http://ir.moneygram.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1051857 (7)MoneyGram Launches Money Transfers via Postal Savings Bank of China's Mobile App http://ir.moneygram.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1048508 (8)MoneyGram MobilePass™ Significantly Expands to 35,000+ U.S. Locations http://ir.moneygram.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1039537 (9)MoneyGram Doubles Agent Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina http://ir.moneygram.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1028078 (10)MoneyGram Connects Customers to more than 2 Billion Accounts Around the Globe http://ir.moneygram.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=976694

Has Amazon critical mass to "force" other big firms to move to Ripple? (like... well I am not enough brave to mentioned, but the firm name starting with 'A' and ending with 'pple' ) Or we should wait for further other big ones to connect in order to see FOMO from other companies. Thanks (Sorry for my bad English)

I have checked this video again after it was (re)posted by @Bagheera in @Hodor's topic (how could I have missed this before, was the evidence right under my/our nose?): At the end the following is said by mr Dilip Rao: They actually have a partner on the ground in India and several more countries. With SBI and other banks, this is actually a really big thing. Very SWELL indeed. FSS (http://www.fss.co.in/) Financial Software and Systems (FSS) is a global leader in payments technology and transaction processing, offering business value in the areas of electronic payments and financial transaction processing solutions & services. The company has earned the status of being a payments systems leader through a combination of established portfolio of technology solutions, state-of-the-art infrastructure and 25 years of experience in the payments domain. Headquartered in Chennai, India, FSS has established a global footprint in Africa, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, Singapore and the United States of America. Employees – Powering the success of FSS FSS employs over 2,000 professionals, delivering an entire spectrum of payment systems and services that are trusted by more than 100 companies worldwide, including some of the world’ largest public and private sector banks, financial institutions and payment processors. Integrated payment processing leader As one of the largest independent payments processor in India, FSS’ hosted services enable over 30 banks and financial organizations to process millions of transactions every day, securely and efficiently. The company’s products and services have an integrated perspective of the payments domain and help provide complete solutions to clients across the globe. The company has made significant investments in building state-of-the-art infrastructure including a Tier 3 standard Data Centre, and a strong pool of specialized resources with skill sets in the spectrum of payments. For clients, this translates into trust, commitment and stability they can count on. The Indonesian flag is shown in the presentation and mentioned many times. As well as the UK, The Philippines, China, Mexico, Brazil. He is mentioning India (in relation with the UK?) for inward remittances specifically, liquidity is provided by 2 banks as well. Implementation done by FSS. What countrie(s) will be targeted next?