Stellar blockchain application development services have begun disrupting various business processes, governance systems, and value exchange.
However, the sectors that are terrified the most with this technology is Banking and Fintech industries.Only ten years old, the distributed ledger technology that empowers cryptocurrencies has demonstrated how it can revolutionize the banking architecture, propose faster and cheaper global trading gateways and eradicate third parties in numerous industries.
The startups like SWISTs, VISAs, and future banks are leveraging existing financial infrastructure to develop cutting-edge decentralized banking and finance systems.Ripple and Stellar: Ready to enter the World of Traditional BankingAt the core of this new banking revolution, there are two prominent organizations, Ripple and Stellar.These two blockchain companies, Ripple and Stellar are hell-bent on merging DLTs (distributed ledger technologies) with existing financial architecture.Promoted as the “future of finance and banking,” Ripple and Stellar are creating blockchain based financial systems to address the problems the industry faces today.Ripple’s roadmap to revolutionize the traditional banking system through decentralizationWhen it was launched in 2013, Ripple’s goal was to develop scalable and low-cost financial processing solutions for banks globally.Surprisingly, after one year, the blockchain startup bagged Fidor Bank as its first client.The Munich based bank employed Ripple’s payment processing system for its regional and international customers.Since then, Ripple Foundation has been collaborating with numerous financial entities and banks around the world to reform this industry.Ripple has flown across the Arabs where it got the approval of an international payment deal with UAE Exchange through decentralized cross-border payments solutions.Also, the Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority, Arab’s central bank, has also permissioned Ripple to enable regional banks to beef up their payment processing capacities (domestic or international) through xCurrent, a Ripple’s blockchain based, cost-effective, and transparent remittance settlement solution.Ripple’s journey hasn’t stopped there.
In this financial industry, it has cut across every part of the world.In November 2018, Ripple came into partnership with one of the prominent banks in Brazil, Bradesco.
The partnership also brings on the table the Brazil-Japan cross-border payment corridor, with industry giants like Mitsubishi and MUFG entering the pact.In October this year, 60 Japanese banks controlling over 80% of banking assets in the country signed on to use the Ripple’s Money Tap mobile app.It seems like, on a wider scale, Ripple is being tagged as the blockchain technology gradually taking over SWIFT and VISA, which is significant with the company’s rapid adoption by concurrent financial institutions.At the beginning of 2018, Ripple had partnered with 75 banks which were using its various DLT solutions.
Other prominent banks using Ripple include IndusInd Bank, PNC Bank, Banco Santander, BBVA, Akbank, Bank of America, and Standard Chartered among many others.The bottom line is Ripple is not the only blockchain startup heading along this path.Stellar’s plan to enter the traditional banking and finance::Incorporated in 2014, Stellar is a blockchain technology-based platform.