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Saudi Arabia's National Commercial Bank has agreed and signed up officially with RippleNet, starting up remittance payment corridors between the KSA and United States, and other potential Asian markets.
The reached on agreement is a first mast between a Saudi Arabia bank and Ripple in the beginning of February 2018 agreement with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority to develop an efficient pilot programme and sandbox for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) banks to effectively test out connections with Ripple for immediate settlement of all cross-border transfers.
New Markets to Open Up
The KSA is one of the biggest sources of remittances in the globe. As per the World Bank, $308 million US dollars were transacted into KSA, and $37 billion in remittances were transacted from the nation in the year 2016.
For NCB, which is the second-biggest financial institution in KSA, the connection to RippleNet will furnish it to associate with the rest of financial institutions especially banks on this network, and start up other new markets in Asia and North America, starting with Republic of Singapore, an island city state in Southeast Asia.
Read the details in the article of Coinidol dot com, the world blockchain news outlet: https://coinidol.com/ripple-advances-in-japan-saudi-arabia-middle-east/
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