The digital payments arm of Ant Group, operator of the Alipay mobile payments platform, has integrated Kinexys Digital Payments into its treasury platform Ant Financial and Kinexys parent J.P. Morgan say the integration offers Ant Financial the ability to make payments in three major currencies 24/7 The cross-currency payment capability operates outside normal banking hours but remains within the J.P. Morgan private permissioned blockchain network Ant International, the Singa

Circle has agreed to link its payments infrastructure with the cross-border payments platform provided to banks by technology vendor Finastra The link will enable banks to settle payments in the USDC Stablecoin without requiring customers to instruct in USDC The arrangement gives banks the option to settle payments without going via their traditional correspondent banks Payments technology vendor Finastra and Circle, issuer of the USDC Stablecoin, say they are working togethe

Blockchain-based cross-border payments technology company Ripple has bought prime broker Hidden Road for US$1.25 billion The Ripple Stablecoin RLUSD will facilitate cross-margining between digital assets and traditional markets for Hidden Road customers Hidden Road will migrate its post-trade activity to the XRP Ledger (XRPL), the Ripple blockchain Ripple, the technology company that uses blockchain to speed up and lower the cost of cross-border payments, has acquired non-ban