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 SBI Remit will use XRP as a bridge currency to enable faster and more cost-effective remittances to several Southeast Asian countries. 
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 Japanese financial holding company SBI Group has announced that its international remittance services arm SBI Remit has partnered with Ripple and SBI Ripple Asia to offer an XRP (XRP) remittance service to bank accounts in several Southeast Asian countries.&nbsp; 
 In an announcement, the company highlighted that SBI Remit has been using Ripple payments services for international <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="remittance" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/remittance.html">remittance</a>s since 2017. Furthermore, SBI Remit also introduced solutions using crypto in 2021, claiming that it was the first in Japan to provide <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="remittance" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/remittance.html">remittance</a> services using XRP to crypto wallets in the Philippines. 
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 XRPを活用するRippleの送金ソリューションを用いた国際送金サービスをフィリピン・ベトナム・インドネシア向けに順次拡大 【XRPのブリッジ通貨利用】 スピーディかつ低コストで送金 拡張性あり(世界中のRipple提携先へ容易に送金可) ⇒国際送金事業における競争力強化https://t.co/2mwo33cn4q pic.twitter.com/vaOKwlC79y— SBI VC Trade (SBI VCトレード） (@sbivc_official) September 6, 2023 
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 With the new update, the payment technology service will be expanded to bank accounts in the Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia. Through the program, SBI Remit will use XRP as a bridge currency to allow fast and cost-effective <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="remittance" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/remittance.html">remittance</a>s. 
 According to the announcement, SBI expects adoption to accelerate as the volume of remittances to bank accounts in the countries mentioned above is high. Meanwhile, SBI also highlighted that it partnered with the cross-border payment solutions company Tranglo to make the expansion possible. 
 SBI did not mention an exact date of when the service will be available, but the company highlighted that it will be rolled out within this month. 
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 Ripple’s services continue to gain adoption in Japan despite its ongoing lawsuit in the United States. On April 17, Japanese <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="banks" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/banks.html">banks</a> Yamaguchi, Momiji and Kitakyushu started to support a RippleNet-based <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="remittance" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/remittance.html">remittance</a> service called MoneyTap P2P. The <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="banks" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/banks.html">banks</a> collectively have more than 170 local branches and are considered to be some of the major banking players in the country. 
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SBI expands Ripple remittance tech to banks in Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines

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