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What's Happening With XRP (Ripple) Today?
Monday, April 5, 2021 - 1:04am | 471Read More...XRP, the token associated with Ripple, traded 15.3% higher over 24 hours at press time early Monday. What Happened: XRP (XRP) has soared 24.12% in a seven-day trailing period leading up to press time beating Bitcoin’s (BTC) weekly gain of 5.01%. The apex cryptocurrency by market...
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What's Happening With XRP (Ripple) Cryptocurrency Today?
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - 1:04am | 452Read More...XRP (XRP) traded 3.18% higher at $0.58 at press time on Monday after the company associated with it — Ripple Labs Inc — said it acquired a stake in a Malaysia-based cross-borders payments firm. What Happened: Ripple said Monday it acquired a 40% stake in Tranglo which will allow it to...
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Fintech Focus For March 22, 2021
Sunday, March 21, 2021 - 9:38pm | 1881Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “I didn’t come into this job expecting a 9am-5pm’s, but I also didn’t expect consistent 9am-5am’s either.” Source: Goldman Analyst One Big Thing In Fintech: To keep up with emerging technology, self-made billionaire Mark Cuban is always...
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Fintech Focus For March 9, 2021
Monday, March 8, 2021 - 6:49pm | 1938Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “If I look at trading when I started, I would say a phone or occasionally a computer got broken at least once a week, or once every two weeks,” Dunn, Citigroup’s global co-head of rates trading, said during a virtual roundtable last week, held ahead of...
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Why XRP Is Surging Today Despite Bitcoin Slump
Friday, March 5, 2021 - 2:41am | 353Read More...The cryptocurrency XRP is trading about 4.7% higher over 24 hours at $0.46 at press time on Friday. The surge comes despite an overall slump in the cryptocurrency market, with Bitcoin (BTC) trading 4.5% lower at $47,133.27, as per CoinMarketCap data. Ethereum is also down 4.15% at $1,484.48. Ripple...
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Fintech Focus For February 2, 2021
Monday, February 1, 2021 - 6:38pm | 1809Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “This is not the market participants' problem, they paid to play. It’s the broker’s problem, from an operational standpoint, to make sure that these things are in check.” Source: Kris Sidial One Big Thing In Fintech: Year 2021 will be all about...
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Crypto Market Update: Bitcoin Posts Massive Recovery, XRP Faces Grayscale Setback
Thursday, January 14, 2021 - 1:35am | 460Read More...Cryptocurrency markets have staged a smart recovery with the total global market capitalization jumping 10.17% in 24 hours leading to press time, as per CoinMarketCap data. What Happened: Bitcoin (BTC) was up 10.01% at press time at $37,330.57 while Ethereum (ETH) rallied 5.48% higher at $1,105.77...
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Why XRP Is Outperforming Bitcoin Today
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 - 3:52am | 341Read More...The cryptocurrency market is posing a recovery at press-time after the slump over the last two days that saw Bitcoin (BTC) retreat from an all-time high of $41,962.36 to near-$30,000 levels. Bitcoin has recovered 4.35% in the 24-hours leading to press-time at $36,280, with a market dominance of 68....
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Cryptocurrency Stellar Has Surged 180% Over A Week — Here's Why
Thursday, January 7, 2021 - 4:48am | 268Read More...XRP, the cryptocurrency managed by Ripple, rallied early Thursday but the spike was overshadowed by another payments-focused cryptocurrency Stellar (XLM). What Happened: XRP was trading at $0.3 per unit, up 30.43% in a 24-hour period, as of press time, while XLM rose 52.98% to $0.35 in the same...
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Fintech Focus For December 31, 2020
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 7:48pm | 1939Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings. Source: Jonathan Huie One Big Thing In Fintech: In a recent outlook for North American and European fintech, Fitch Ratings acknowledged that the sector fundamentals should remain resilient next year, despite pandemic-...
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XRP Plummets Another 19% As Coinbase Delivers Latest Jolt
Monday, December 28, 2020 - 11:47pm | 355Read More...XRP (XRP) traded 19.14% lower over a 24-hour trailing period at $0.227 at press time, as per CoinMarketCap data. What Happened: Coinbase, a major cryptocurrency exchange desk based in Silicon Valley, delivered another jolt to Ripple on Monday, saying it had decided to suspend the XRP trading pairs...
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Fintech Focus For December 28, 2020
Sunday, December 27, 2020 - 2:06pm | 1613Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Source: Winston Churchill One Big Thing In Fintech: Gangti Zhu, a Maryland retiree, says he put almost his entire life savings into a Robinhood Markets account this year, only to lose about $300,000 in a hack. He describes...
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Ripple, XRP And The SEC: What You Need To Know
Wednesday, December 23, 2020 - 10:59am | 341Read More...XRP, one of the more widely followed cryptocurrencies, plummeted 25% to the 35-cent level Wednesday morning, adding to Tuesday's selloff, CNBC reported. What Happened: XRP's decline can be directly attributed to a U.S. Securities and Exchange lawsuit against Ripple, a blockchain company...
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Fintech Focus For December 23, 2020
Tuesday, December 22, 2020 - 8:20pm | 1714Read More...Quote To Start The Day: During the darkest days of the Model 3 program, I reached out to Tim Cook to discuss the possibility of Apple acquiring Tesla (for 1/10 of our current value). He refused to take the meeting. Source: Elon Musk One Big Thing In Fintech: Jack Miller, head of trading at Baird,...
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Bitcoin Recovers From Thanksgiving Lows Above $18.5K, Ethereum Flirts With Crucial $600 Mark
Monday, November 30, 2020 - 2:44am | 418Read More...Bitcoin recovered to above the $18,500 levels at press-time after plunging as low as $16,351.03 last week on Thursday. What Happened: Blockchain analytics firm Glassnode tweeted Sunday that the mining difficulty for the apex cryptocurrency rose to 8.9%, which is below 4.4% of Bitcoin’s all-...
