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Title: Fidor Becomes First Bank to Use Ripple Payment Protocol
Post by: tokeweed on May 05, 2014, 03:54:58 AM
Fidor Becomes First Bank to Use Ripple Payment Protocol

by Pete Rizzo

San Francisco-based decentralized payment network provider Ripple Labs has announced that German Internet direct bank Fidor is now using the Ripple protocol as part of its transaction infrastructure.

With the announcement, Fidor has become the first bank to integrate Ripple’s payment protocol, allowing its customers to instantly send money in any currency in any amount through the bank’s money transfer products at a lower cost.

The move is significant as it will allow Ripple to showcase how its unique open-source approach to payments can be used by banks to replace many of the common intermediaries in the industry, thereby passing on savings to partner institutions, and by extension, their clientele... continued

source:  http://www.coindesk.com/fidor-becomes-first-bank-to-use-ripple-payment-protocol/


Title: Re: Fidor Becomes First Bank to Use Ripple Payment Protocol
Post by: raveldoni on May 05, 2014, 03:56:56 AM
Great news! Let's see how many others follow them.


Title: Re: Fidor Becomes First Bank to Use Ripple Payment Protocol
Post by: Burninj on May 05, 2014, 04:01:54 AM
mmmh osef?


Title: Re: Fidor Becomes First Bank to Use Ripple Payment Protocol
Post by: varunsin on May 05, 2014, 04:02:27 AM
Great news :)


Title: Re: Fidor Becomes First Bank to Use Ripple Payment Protocol
Post by: freequant on May 05, 2014, 04:04:36 AM
How about that Ripple mud slingers?


Title: Re: Fidor Becomes First Bank to Use Ripple Payment Protocol
Post by: tokeweed on May 05, 2014, 04:19:01 AM
lol don't start. ;)


Title: Re: Fidor Becomes First Bank to Use Ripple Payment Protocol
Post by: platorin on May 06, 2014, 09:19:17 AM
Begining?


Title: Re: Fidor Becomes First Bank to Use Ripple Payment Protocol
Post by: mobydick on May 06, 2014, 09:33:45 PM
Hopefully this decouples XRP from BTC.  Up 20% today.