The regulatory game between the blockchain and the financial industry’s traditional rails is back in focus. With popular Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) based chains now under a magnifying glass in terms of testing, XRP’s role as an optional liquidity bridge asset.
SWIFT Opens Borders For Regulatory-Friendly Adoption
On the first day of July, SWIFT’s official announcement kicked off with a rhetorical question: “In a world of constant change, how do we ensure the right conversations are taking place?”.
In order to boost the chances of seamless interoperability, the Policy Lab runs as a global annual conference with the Sibos conference in Miami as the cherry on top.
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This year, this dedicated forum for open dialogue between regulators, standard-setters, industry associations and international financial institutions heavily focuses on ISO 20022, the new gold standard for global financial messaging. Striving to make cross-border payments immediate, companies are encouraged to explore blockchain-based options.
From XRP’s perspective, SWIFT’s ‘Policy Lab’ could bridge the gap between XRP as a bridge asset & SWIFT-linked pilots through partners like Thunes, enabling faster settlements without replacing SWIFT’s messaging role. That’s being done via Ripple’s XRP-powered On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), creating new XRP payment routes atop of SWIFT.
The synchronous composability of multiple blockchain-based liquidity along with the traditional banking funds are exactly what SWIFT is seeking for. This makes global payments not just instant, but cost-effective on a level unprecedented before. For XRP coin specifically, the native support for SWIFT’s new ISO 20022 standard comes in handy.
Reasons Why Ripple’s XRP Edges Out SWIFT Competition
Via RippleNet, major SWIFT-compliant banks like HSBC, Santander, Lloyds & Barclays are able to plug in the XRP-powered tech stack whenever they need to. In this year’s ‘Policy Lab’, XRP
interoperability themes overlap with ongoing SWIFT blockchain experiments that optionally support Ripple products.
While switching to an immediate settlement option is mandatory by 2027, SWIFT-tied banks can freely choose which payment route to adopt. Ultimately, SWIFT’s acting as the main plug, uniting over 40 blockchain-based ledgers & thousands of banks worldwide.
Ripple’s XRP is often mentioned as a top contender because of its already-strong cross-border scheme positioning: the XRP Ledger processes billions in trading volume a day, while Ripple’s own treasury registered $13 trillion in volume last year, leaving digital assets out due to regulatory issues.
With SWIFT now striving to solve the regulatory hurdles, the next few months will be definitely interesting: if SWIFT-related banks find a permanent purpose for XRP in SWIFT’s modernized network, rich data may flow through XRP’s ledger rather than the legacy MT messaging format.
Originally, Ripple joined the ISO 20022 Registration Management Group (RMG) in 2020 as the first Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)-focused member, soon becoming an official standards body participant. The standardized APIs help banks integrate XRP without costly conversion fees.
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