This industry report helps clarify Ripple’s role in the financial ecosystem, explaining the following:
- Ripple as a decentralized transaction protocol
- How Ripple relates to correspondent banking and cross-border money-transfer
- Role of Ripple Labs in developing technology and business use cases
- How Ripple can take out cost, collateral, and risk to interbank settlement
- Payment applications for Ripple beyond financial institutions
- Role of XRP in facilitating network security and transactional liquidity
- Regulatory considerations
