This Tiny Crypto Startup Has Lessons for Libra’s ‘Unbanked’ Dreams
If Facebook’s Libra project truly aims to serve the globe’s 1.7 billion unbanked, Hong Kong-based Bitspark might offer some insights.
Remittances
European money transfer service Azimo is tapping Ripple's On-Demand Liquidity and XRP to speed up remittances to the Southeast Asian nation.
Intermex has said it will use use RippleNet for its U.S.-Mexican remittance corridor.
DeeMoney has become the first non-banking institution to use RippleNet in Thailand.
The company, with operations in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam, will be permanently shuttering its doors on March 4.
The Civic Wallet is a noncustodial money transfer system that uses your face instead of complex keys.
Remittances
Philippines Startup Lets Coinbase Users Remit Cash
Coinbase customers in 24 countries will now be able to use a cash-to-cash remittance service based on bitcoin’s blockchain to send money to the Philippines. By employing Coinbase’s API, Philippines-based Coins.ph is allowing the wallet and exchange platform’s two million registered users to send pesos to recipients in the Southeast Asian country through a variety of delivery methods. To use the service, users […]
