Ripple Selected to Participate in the Bank of England FinTech Accelerator’s Exploration

The Bank of England’s FinTech Accelerator announced that it is conducting a PoC with Ripple to demonstrate cross-border payments and settlement using two different Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) systems.

The goal of this PoC is to showcase the synchronised movement of two different currencies across two different RTGS systems and how this kind of synchronisation might lower settlement risk and improve the speed and efficiency of cross-border payments.

Selection to participate in this PoC is a competitive process, and at the conclusion may be additional opportunities to showcase the results in a case study, or even continue down a path to becoming an ongoing partner of the Bank of England.

Ripple also participated in the Bank’s recent public consultation of the RTGS Strategy Review, an initiative focused on the design of the next generation of RTGS system for the United Kingdom’s central bank.

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On company already successfully leveraging the Ripple infrastructure is Sydney based Flash Payments, a cutting edge fintech startup, engineered from the ground up to deliver transparent foreign exchange transfer services.

Flash Payments is giving local financial institutions a run for their money by providing fast, secure and very competitive foreign exchange conversion services as an alternative to the existing opaque, siloed and inefficient banking networks, without the hidden fees, typically imposed by the banks

Also using the innovative Ripple technology platform and XRP, Ripple's digital currency, Flash Payments delivers extraordinary transparency, speed and transactional control to users.

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