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By Evie Vavasseur
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Where the Rumors Came From. The speculation probably had legs because of how Ripple positioned itself over the years.
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SWIFT's GPI Push Is the Real Story. Zschach also made clear what SWIFT is actually focused on: its Global Payments Innovation service,…
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What This Means for XRP. For XRP holders, it's not great news. A lot of the token's long-term value thesis rested partly on…
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Tom Zschach said it plainly. No XRP. Not now, not in the pipeline. The former Chief Innovation Officer at SWIFT shut down rumors that the global financial messaging network was…
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The denial lands at a moment when speculation about XRP and SWIFT had been running hot in crypto circles.
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The speculation probably had legs because of how Ripple positioned itself over the years. The company built its entire pitch around being a better, faster alternative to…
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And it's worth being clear about what he actually said. Zschach didn't hedge. He didn't say "we're not currently exploring it" in that corporate way that leaves space for future…
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The XRP community has long treated any ambiguity from traditional finance as a signal. Silence gets read as possibility. A vague statement gets read as confirmation.
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GPI has been SWIFT's main answer to critics who say the network is slow and opaque. Cross-border payments through traditional correspondent banking can take days and carry fees…
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That's kind of the core tension here. Ripple and XRP represent an outside solution. SWIFT's whole posture, at least as Zschach frames it, is about building from within.
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So the denial isn't just about XRP specifically. It seems to reflect a broader philosophy: SWIFT improves SWIFT, and external crypto assets aren't part of that plan.
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For XRP holders, it's not great news. A lot of the token's long-term value thesis rested partly on the idea that institutional adoption was coming — that SWIFT or something like…
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Related: XRP Drops Toward $1 as Bitcoin Pair Tests 1,700 Sats Floor
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That said, Ripple's business doesn't run through SWIFT. Ripple has its own banking and payment partners, its own corridors, its own products.
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