The main mantle of financial systems is to simplify the exchange of goods and services considering the time taken. Financial systems contain different types of institutions and procedures for enabling such settlements, and in modern economies, you will find e-money, e-payments, and legal tenders as the three available payment procedures.
The legal tender is a payment medium that is accepted by all concerned parties as a physical currency that can be used to clear credits in the same units. Generally, the physical coins and notes that serve as a legal tender are issued by a central bank, that suppliers are obliged to accept for any outstanding obligation valued in the same coinage.
E-payments are becoming the preferred mode of payment by many as each day that comes with technology advancement. Unlike physical currency, these e-payments are virtual transfers from credit and deposit accounts enabled by financial organizations like credit card firms and commercial banks. The private account ledgers and electronic platforms can only be accessed and amended by their host financial organizations.
Lastly, the third payment medium, E-money, is a virtual currency in which monetary worth is stored on software or hardware, allowing individuals to pay for commodities or services from third-party traders. E-money is more or less like cryptocurrency.
Be that as it may, for many years now, Australia’s main financial institution, has been under pressure from different quarters to modernize their medieval national remittance platform to meet the needs of the current and future economy.
With full knowledge of this need, the Reserve Bank of Australia, Australia’s central bank, actualized the New Payment Platform or NPP last year that allows individuals and businesses to make real-time settlements countrywide 24/7. The NPP offers real-time retail settlements, 24-hour service availability, and industry-wide standardization; it, however, leaves behind the complete remittance information.
Possible Ripple (XRP) Integration by Central Bank of Australia and New Zealand
Although the New Payment Platform is addressing a majority of the issues that were raised by the RBA, the settlement network is limited to domestic transactions. This leaves a huge opening for blockchain technologies and innovations such as XRP.
Fortunately for Ripple (XRP), which deals with cross-border settlements, a majority of developers working on the NPP are well aware of Ripple. Just recently, through a report done by the Reserve Bank of Australia discussing blockchain technology, Ripple managed to get positive reviews from the chief Pacific financial institution, declaring Ripple as a good alternative to Bitcoin that the report regarded as unstable.
At the moment, financial institutions of Australia and New Zealand are showing interest in RippleNet with Westpac and the National Australian Bank confirming they’re joining the Ripple network. Other relevant financial institutions such as CBA and ANZ are also showing accountable interest in RippleNet by closely monitoring the blockchain technology and are rumored to be in discussion with Ripple.
Given that all the major banks in the New Payment Platform have done trials and have experienced Ripple’s security and reliability in transferring settlements through the Ripple platform, only furthers speculations of a possible adoption of xRapid and xCurrent services shortly.
Both countries look hesitant in adopting Ripple, but given what the company has to offer, they might have to barge into the demands of the 21st century by adopting RippleNet.
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