Ripple: SWIFT denies rumors of collaboration

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT for short, is NOT to cooperate with Ripple. In the past, rumors came that SWIFT would be working together in the framework of the Protocol Updates, the company behind XRP tokens.

the Ripple works with SWIFT? That would have been a big thing. The company, which standardized since 1973, the message and transaction traffic from around the world, more than 10,000 banks via telecommunications networks, is currently working on a Protocol Update. In this context, the SWIFT should make a network for a further 4,000 banks available. The Upgrade ultimately aims to expand the GPI System.

partnerships and Community-fueled rumors

Since the company had accumulated in the last few months, partnerships with a large number of banks and in the context of xRapid a fixed share of the banking market, it was then a short-hand to rumors of a collaboration between Ripple and SWIFT.

In various crypto-media reported, also on Twitter, the rumor made the rounds. Here it was a change of staff from the HSBC Bank to the company behind XRP, rallied the rumors:

1. Has swift partnered with Ripple? Marcus treacher who is on swift's board leaves hsbc to work with ripple. So swift have recently stated xborder payments can settle within seconds which is worlds apart from the 30+ mins stated on the last pic, THREAD $xrp $xrpcommunity $btc pic.twitter.com/edKGO6oxGA

Sparrow (@SparrowHodl) October 7, 2018

“Has closed SWIFT with the Ripple? Marcus treacher [sic], sitting with SWIFT in the Board of Directors, is leaving hsbc to Ripple to cooperate. Ripple has also confirmed recently that Cross-border Payments can be processed within seconds, which is worlds away from what was previously said].”

magnates reported As Finance now, however, the messages to a duck.

a spokesperson for SWIFT said to the magazine:

“I'm not sure where these rumors come from. but the upcoming publications [...] have nothing to do with RippleNet. Their main purpose is to ensure that all the payments get a Tracking reference [ ... ] to allow banks to settle their GPI-payments end-to-end and in real time.”

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