How deep we all think Christine Lagarde is associated with Ripple?
She has mentioned Ripple a few times and been seen with Brad Garlinghouse several times, and now there is mention of the IMF being at Ripple's Swell conference in a few weeks time.
Now she is moving to the ECB, I'm confident she will continue to carry favour for Ripple. Sometimes it just seems too good to be true!
I think that Ripple will provide services to many influential people on this planet. The ripple team has a very strong influence on all world markets.
That is the point that makes Ripple attractive to the fintech world but since the MoneyGram deal did not affect the XRP price thing have become unclear.
How much potential does Ripple have to influence the world market? The price needs to pick up and the price should not be affected by BTC even though it is the base rate. If XRP can hold its own away from BTC then it make inroads to replace Ethereum as number 2 by market capital.
XRP definitely needs to stand on its own feet and break away from the BTC swings. Moneygram have stated that Q4 the cross-boarder payments using xRapid should ramp up, and then Q1 there should be good volume. One can only hope it's enough utiliuty to actually boost the price of XRP!