News: Cross-border payments

Diagram of Arf's RLUSD settlement liquidity on the XRP Ledger: Arf lends RLUSD to a licensed payment firm, the payout settles and the loan is repaid in one to five days, with XRPL vault and lending amendments XLS-65 and XLS-66 as a later phase

RLUSD · Oct 22

Arf Brings RLUSD Settlement Liquidity to Payment Firms on the XRP Ledger

Arf will lend RLUSD on the XRP Ledger to licensed payment companies, repaid in one to five days as payments settle.

Diagram of Visa Direct USDC prefunding: a 24-hour bar compares bank-transfer funding windows with USDC top-ups at any hour, then USDC in, Visa converts, USD balance, payouts to 180+ countries, with Inyo Global as first enabler

Visa Direct Stablecoin Prefunding Moves to Production With USDC

Visa Direct clients on Inyo Global's platform can now prefund cross-border payouts with USDC in near real time.

Bank deposit and token claims shown side by side

Swift · Sep 30

Swift Plans a Shared Ledger for Cross-Border Payments

Swift and more than 30 financial institutions will develop a ledger for regulated tokenized value.