The Bitcoin [BTC] market has lost 0.54% of its value in December 2019, with the king coin’s price movement recording recurring dips. A recent dip of 2.45% contributed to the price of the world’s largest crypto tumbling down from $7,450.62 to $7,268.03. Following the loss, Bitcoin tried to recover. However, it was stuck at $7,337.32, at press time. As most cryptos are correlated to BTC, the king coin’s fall impacted the rest of the crypto-market too.

A proposed bill on remittance insurances mentions Ripple and XRP as the newest developments in payment channels. Increased cross-border remittances have alerted US regulators to the opportunities for tracking and securing funds.

The blockchain technology that appeared in 2008 with the introduction of Bitcoin is developing approximately five times as quickly as the Internet did. It even went through its boom and bust periods more rapidly than the dotcom mania did.

Ripple’s partner network has continued to grow strongly this year and now has more than 300 members who rely on Ripple’s payment solutions. In addition, a few days ago the transaction volume reached a new all-time high, so that many new milestones were reached this year.

Ripple continues to expand its solutions and partnerships with institutions and organizations around the world. Now, the company behind the third largest cryptocurrency on the market has added the University of Tokyo (one of the top universities in the world) to its UBRI Blockchain Research Initiative.

Crypto whales seem to have swung back into activity of late. It’s probably because the year is approaching its end and a lot of people expect something big to happen soon. While existing investors move to accumulate more, new investors could also be trying their hand in the crypto space.

According to cryptocurrency trader Eric Choe, Ripple's XRP could revive its bullish momentum if it touches the $0.26 point. This level is seen as pivotal for the third biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalization to eye bigger price gains.

While all eyes may be on Bitcoin at the moment, it may be time to pay XRP some heed. Popular cryptocurrency analyst CryptoWolf recently observed that the altcoin is potentially forming an “ascending triangle bottom,” marked by a series of higher highs, a horizontal upper resistance, and tightening price action that imply a breakout to the upside will take place once the triangle nears its apex.

Ripple's investment arm Xpring has launched a new platform for integrating XRP payments.

One of the world’s largest and most influential banks – Bank of America (BoA) – admits that Ripple offers a truly innovative solution and mentions it in a report.

The new platform aims to allow crypto and non-crypto developers to integrate payments into any mobile application. Now, Xpring.io offers those developers a wallet, new tools, technical documentation and Xrping customer service.

SBI Ripple Asia has restated that it is looking towards covering over 50 percent of the overall Ripple network once the consortium and SBI Remit are able to achieve remittance from Japan to other banks in Southeast Asia.

The cryptocurrency trading platform, Luno Malaysia is set to add support for Ripple’s XRP trading at the beginning of 2020. The company considers XRP a viable ass...

Ripple continues to expand its reach around the world, which has been one of the key goals of the company offering faster and cheaper transaction solutions. According to ZyCrypto, the company is extending its services to a large Asian market.

A big transaction from the San Francisco startup Ripple is turning heads among crypto traders.

Money transfer firm SendFriend, which utilizes Ripple’s XRP payment solution, claims to help customers save up to 80% in remittance fees.

One of MoneyGram's leading money transmission networks has announced that blockchain-based payment company Ripple has completed its original commitment to a final investment of $ 20 million.

XRP investors say evidence of a partnership between Ripple and the crypto exchange Binance may be emerging.

The CNN anchor Julia Chatterley has announced an upcoming interview with Alex Holmes – the CEO of MoneyGram, the global remittance giant which currently uses Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) and XRP.

The largest Mexican exchange Bitso is a partner of Ripple and MoneyGram in the On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) corridor to Mexico, where XRP trades against the local peso.