29.03.2024

XRP-Centric SBI Holdings, and R3 to Partner, in a Joint Venture

SBI Holdings and R3 have announced that both companies have agreed on establishing a joint venture with its operations in Japan. SBI Holdings has contributed 60% of the capital for the venture whereas R3 has provided the other 40%.

The announcement by both companies also provided the following information about the new venture.

SBI Holdings has been known to be one of the biggest backers of Ripple technology and XRP not only in Japan, but across the globe.

The financial giant recently launched the VC-Trade crypto exchange that listed XRP as one of its first digital assets to be traded on the platform.

Company Name: SBI R3 Japan Co., Ltd.

Business: Provision of DLT platform Corda, and other related business

Address: Izumi Garden Tower, 1-6- 1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 106-6019, Japan

Representative: Mamoru Fujimoto

Establishment: January 2019

Capital: JPY 500 million

SBI Holdings Already the Largest Outside Shareholder of R3

Back in May 2017 R3 at the time, closed the largest funding round in the history of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). Over 40 financial institutions participated in the funding worth $107 Million. SBI Holdings was part of the group that included top financial institutions such as Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, HSBC, ING, Banco Bradesco, Itaú Unibanco, Natixis, Barclays, UBS and Wells Fargo. The funds have facilitated the expansion of the Corda platform and its Enterprise solution by the same name.

In August 2018, SBI Holdings once again invested in R3. This move made SBI Holdings the largest outside shareholder of the blockchain firm. SBI has also been providing training programs for Corda in Japan.

XRP-Centric SBI Holdings, and R3 to Partner, in a Joint Venture

The new joint venture will carry out the following activities in the country:

  • support provision and introduction of the Corda license
  • arrange schemes for its actual use
  • promote collaboration with overseas offices of R3 and other Corda partners.
  • develop its businesses in the Eastern Asian Region

SWIFT Announces Trial of DLT integration using R3’s Corda

At the moment of writing this, SWIFT has announced a proof-of-concept (PoC) to trial its gpi link integrated with R3’s Corda platform. The PoC will use the R3 platform to authorize payments from banks via SWIFT’s gpi Link. The PoC will be extended to support other Distributed Ledger Technologies and e-commerce trade platforms.

XRP Spikes By 9%

News of SWIFT using R3’s Corda platform has been attributed to XRP’s sudden gain in value of 9%. This is due to the fact that R3’s Corda has the capability of using XRP to facilitate global payments. Richard Gendal Brown, Chief Technology Officer at R3 explained in December of last year, how the digital asset will work on the Corda Settler:

The deployment of the Corda Settler and its support for XRP as the first settlement mechanism is an important step in showing how the powerful ecosystems cultivated by two of the of the world’s most influential crypto and blockchain communities can work together.

While the Settler will be open to all forms of crypto and traditional assets, this demonstration with XRP is the next logical step in showing how widespread acceptance and use of digital assets to transfer value and make payments can be achieved.

Corda Settler is an open source CorDapp that allows payment obligations arising on the Corda Network to be settled via any parallel rail supporting cryptocurrencies or other crypto assets.

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