- The World Bank believes that DLT solutions could also bring down compliance costs and improve the transparency and traceability of transfers.
- They also praised Ripple’s xRapid calling it a “real-world solution” that’s being “actively tested.”
The World Bank heaped praises on distributed ledgers, in particular, Ripple and called Ripple’s xRapid as “potentially transformational technology.” Marco Nicoli, the World Bank’s senior financial sector specialist, wrote a report saying:
“These shortcomings make the cross-border payment industry ripe for disruption and innovation. Some see distributed ledger technologies (DLT) as having the potential to drive industry-wide change. Indeed, B2B cross-border payments, traditionally characterized by fragmentation and opacity, are a potential use case for the successful implementation of DLT…
Using DLT solutions could also bring down compliance costs and improve the transparency and traceability of transfers. This could help ease the impact of the de-risking phenomenon that has affected the remittance services industry over the past few years. Increasing the transparency of transactions could increase the confidence of the banking sector in the remittances industry. Further, DLT solutions could potentially by-pass the de-risking issue altogether, by enabling remittance service providers to operate without the need for a correspondent banking relationship.”
The report also praised Ripple’s xRapid calling it a “real-world solution” that’s being “actively tested”:
“In 2018, Ripple, a fintech company, piloted xRapid, a DLT-based cross-border payments solution, along the very competitive U.S.-Mexico corridor. Financial institutions involved in the pilot saved 40%-70% in foreign exchange costs, and the average payment times was just over two minutes. The transfer of funds on xRapid took two to three seconds, with most of the processing time explained by domestic payment rails and intermediary digital asset exchanges.”
On the potential of distributed ledgers dominating cross-border payments in the long run:
“Whether DLT will be an effective solution to the challenges the remittances industry faces , and when the technology will reach sufficient scale to effectively disrupt this space, remain to be answered. In any case, there is ample opportunity – and of course need – for innovation in the cross-border payment industry.”
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