Ripple builds its ‘one-stop’ payments shop
Flurry of acquisitions marks latest step in digital payments specialist’s masterplan to crack trad-fi
With a spending spree totalling an estimated $4 billion to buy up digital infrastructure and payments firms, Ripple has made quite the splash.
Its acquisitions over the past 18 months, which include crypto prime broker Hidden Road and treasury software vendor GTreasury, have helped the digital payments specialist build a sprawling empire comprising blockchain, native token, stablecoin, custodian and settlement provider (the list isn’t exhaustive).
Ripple’s rise has come at a time of rapid change
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