{"id":2609,"date":"2017-12-29T02:36:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T02:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2017-12-29T02:36:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T02:36:13","slug":"ripple-hits-1-50-on-tieup-with-japanese-credit-card-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/ripple-hits-1-50-on-tieup-with-japanese-credit-card-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripple Hits $1.50 on Tieup With Japanese Credit Card Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2151 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ripple.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"250\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbigroup.co.jp\/english\/\">SBI Holdings<\/a> and its subsidiary <a href=\"https:\/\/ripple.com\/sbi-ripple-asia\/\">SBI Ripple Asia<\/a> announced that they have partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.financemagnates.com\/cryptocurrency\/news\/sbi-ripple-asia-forms-credit-card-industry-consortium-japan-%E2%80%8E\/\">three major credit card providers<\/a> in Japan to improve user experience, solve a variety of issues, and increase efficiency through Ripple\u2019s block chain technology.<\/p>\n<p>The participating credit card companies are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.global.jcb\/en\/\">JCB<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc.co.jp\/global\/\">Sumitomo Mitsui<\/a> Card, and <a href=\"http:\/\/corporate.saisoncard.co.jp\/en\/\">Credit Saison<\/a>. The consortium has already developed a payment app that uses Ripple\u2019s technology to enable near instantaneous funding, without risking user security or control.<\/p>\n<p>Ripple is the name of a San Francisco-based company which developed the Ripple payment network for banks and other financial institutions. The Ripple platform \u2013 a real-time gross settlement system (RTGS) &#8211; is built on a distributed open source internet protocol, consensus ledger, and a crypto currency called Ripples (XRP). Network participants have to use the Ripple coin (XRP) for transactions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/ripple-hits-1-24-crypto-market-pressed-panic-button\/\">Ripple<\/a> partnered with SBI Holdings in 2016 to establish SBI Ripple Asia. The association now includes 61 Japanese banks such as Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), MUFG, and Mizhuho. Given the market share of these banks, the announcement boosted the price of Ripple coin to a new high of $1.50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SBI Holdings and its subsidiary SBI Ripple Asia announced that they have partnered with three major credit card providers in Japan to improve user experience, solve a variety of issues, and increase efficiency through Ripple\u2019s block chain technology. The participating credit card companies are JCB, Sumitomo Mitsui Card, and Credit Saison. The consortium has already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,68,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrency","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ripple Hits $1.50 on Tieup With Japanese Credit Card Companies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SBI Ripple Asia has partnered with Japanese Credit Card Companies to use block chain technology and improve user experience and increase efficiency.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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