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American Express $AXP Is Getting Into #Blockchain – Based Payments With #Ripple #Blockstation #ThreeD $IDK.ca $CODE.ca $HIVE.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 3:34 PM on Thursday, November 16th, 2017

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By Reuters

8:09 AM EST

American Express has introduced instant blockchain-based payments using Ripple, a fintech startup, for U.S. corporate customers sending funds to U.K.-based businesses that bank with Santander U.K., the companies said on Thursday.

American Express said its FX International Payments (FXIP) business had partnered with Ripple to provide real-time, trackable non-card payments from the United States to Britain. Customers are already using the service, the companies said, and it would be extended in the future.

This marks one of the first major uses of blockchain, a shared database of transactions maintained by a network of computers on the Internet that is best known as the system underpinning bitcoin.

Financial firms hope the nascent technology can reduce the cost and complexity of burdensome processes such as securities settlement and international payments, but many say widespread use of the technology is still several years away.

“American Express has a long history of integrating new technologies,” said American Express’s chief information officer Marc Gordon, in a statement. “This collaboration with Ripple and Santander represents the next step forward on our blockchain journey, evolving the way we move money around the world.”

San Francisco-based Ripple, whose main focus is blockchain-based cross-border payments, works with many big banks and is backed by firms including Standard Chartered, Accenture, and SBI Holdings.

Source: http://fortune.com/2017/11/16/amex-payments-ripple-blockchain/

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