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Western Union Says It’s Ready for Crypto, Tests With Ripple and XRP-Based xRapid

by Daily Hodl Staff
December 18, 2018
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Remittance giant Western Union says it’s closely watching the pace of global cryptocurrency adoption and is ready to add crypto as a payment option for its customers at any time. According to Western Union global money transfer president Odilon Almeida, integrating crypto into the company’s overall lineup of currencies is an easy task.

“Western Union is ready today to adopt any kind of currency. We already operate with 130 currencies. If we one day feel like it’s the right strategy to introduce cryptocurrencies to our platform, technology-wise it’s just one more currency.

I think cryptocurrency may become one more option of currency, or assets, around the globe to be exchanged between people and businesses. If that happens, we will be ready to launch.”

The company is well-positioned to help bridge the gap between cash and crypto, and boasts it has access to billions of bank accounts and over half a million retail agent locations.

Western Union has been actively testing Ripple’s cross-border payment technology since 2015. The company says those tests remain ongoing. Despite lackluster preliminary results, Western Union CEO Hikmet Ersek cautioned that the company’s tests with xRapid were early and potentially “too small” to draw firm conclusions.

There's a lot of hype around cryptocurrencies.

Good thing we've been transferring money digitally for nearly two decades. Bring on the #blockchain: https://t.co/Z1fzoH2ujV #WUFintech pic.twitter.com/DFUVYq9vOi

— Western Union (@WesternUnion) December 17, 2018

Since Western Union already transfers fiat digitally, the company expects blockchain and cryptocurrency integration to be a smooth fit. As a massive on-ramp for global money movement, Western Union could become one of the first major brands in the financial services industry to tap into crypto as a viable, mainstream payment option.

Ersek’s announcement hints at the new hybrid economy that lies at the intersection of digital currencies and fiat currencies, where consumers are increasingly allowed to choose the type of currency they prefer to use.

As Almeida explains in the company’s blog post,

“Cryptocurrencies have so far failed to achieve broad acceptance because they have yet to master three things: governance, compliance and volatility.

But Western Union is already better equipped to solve for such variables because it already moves money across 130 currencies and devotes substantial resources to all of those three challenges.”

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