Ripple is continuing to add new clients to its distributed ledger-based payments network, RippleNet.

Announced yesterday, two international money transfer companies – Singapore-based InstaReM and Sao Paulo, Brazil-based BeeTech – have partnered to allow customers to benefit from Ripple's product, which they say offers speed, transparency and lower costs.

The collaboration will facilitate blockchain-based payments between Latin America and a number of countries currently served by InstaReM, including markets in Southeast Asia and Europe.

RIPPLE’S CEO Brad Garlinghouse has claimed over time people will gain a better understanding of the cryptocurrency he promotes because they are not “anti-government” Ripple has been developing a network for faster global financial payments and has been keen to work with the help of banks.

Speaking to CNBC, the Ripple CEO claimed soon people would gather a better understanding of the uses of cryptocurrencies, allowing Ripple to break away from the trends of other coins, like Bitcoin.

Hackers who stole information on thousands of Canadian bank users have demanded $1 million-worth of the cryptocurrency XRP to not release the data trove.

According to a CBC News report Tuesday, the two banks hit by the breach, Bank of Montreal and CIBC's online bank Simplii Financial, have said that the personal information of a total of 90,000 account holders had been taken – including identifying data such as names, account numbers, passwords.

If blockchain technology is applied to all business across the world, it will bring about seamless transactions because it's very fast. It's getting the needed attention now and blockchain technology is the best thing that has happened in our generation.

Interesting times are ahead for specific altcoin holders. Anyone who has invested in either Tron or EOS will need to prepare a course of action. Both currencies are in the process of launching their main net, and tokens need to be swapped.

The reserved bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has been sued by cryptocurrency exchange in African country following the RBZ’s recent order to all registered financial institutions to stop all forms of cryptocurrency trading. The central bank also instructed cryptocurrency exchanges to shut down their operations. The largest cryptocurrency exchange in Zimbabwe; Golix, submitted a High Court challenge stating that the RBZ does not have any authority to declare cryptocurrencies illegal

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