In May, financial institutions that participated in a pilot of Ripple xRapid platform revealed exchange savings between 40-79 percent, while additionally noticing a critical change in exchange time, from a normal of 2-3 days to “just over two minutes” as reported by Business Wire on May 10, 2018. XRapid is a low-cost liquidity solution platform for Ripple’s Blockchain-fueled on-demand settlement framework, which uses a digital asset (XRP) and is outlined as an instrument for encouraging cross-border real-time exchanges between financial organizations.

As indicated by the pilot results, it was revealed that 40-70 percent of savings were achieved by not using foreign exchangers, and also because of quicker payments. The experiment tried exchanges between the U.S. and Mexico. BusinessWire takes note of that the present framework expects banks to either tie up their capital in pre-subsidized accounts in Mexico or to go by means of an expensive banking network. Payments with the utilization of Ripple took around two minutes, instead of the normal 2-3 days that customary cross-border installments take, as indicated by a report by Finance Magnates.

Paul Dwyer, CEO of Viamericas, said that the test had demonstrated that digital assets will be the key handler in helping banks to “safely address some of the structural inefficiencies of legacy settlement infrastructure,” underlining that the framework encouraged “rigorous compliance controls.”

In April, Santander was the first bank to execute a client prepared Blockchain-controlled international payments system, utilizing Ripple’s settlement ecosystem.

Also, JPMorgan recorded its own in-house patent for a distributed payments network, under the Blockchain for intra-and interbank settlements.