Ripple Deepens Commitment to Brazil with Expanded Payments Offering, Growing Customer Momentum and VASP License Application

Ripple, the leading provider of blockchain-based enterprise solutions across traditional and digital finance, announced a major expansion of its presence across Brazil — marking a new chapter of institutional digital asset adoption across one of the world’s fastest-growing financial markets. Powered by new product capabilities and accelerating customer adoption, Ripple is now the only solution in the region capable of serving institutions across the full spectrum of financial needs — from cross-border payments and digital asset custody to prime brokerage and treasury management.

Ripple also plans to apply for a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license with the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB), in line with the country’s new virtual asset regulatory framework — reinforcing the compliance-first approach that has guided Ripple’s global operations for over a decade and its commitment to long-term growth in the region.

“Latin America has always been a priority market for Ripple — not just because of the scale of the opportunity, but because Brazil has built one of the most advanced and forward-thinking financial ecosystems in the world,” said Monica Long, President at Ripple. “We’ve spent more than a decade building the trust, licensing, and technology required to operate in regulated markets. Now, with our expanded platform, we can meet institutions across the region with everything they need to compete in the modern financial system.”

Powering Cross-Border Payments at Scale

With more than $100 billion in processed volume globally and coverage across 60+ markets, Ripple Payments is the end-to-end solution for moving money across borders — giving institutions a faster, more transparent way to send, receive, and settle funds in both fiat and stablecoins. Leading fintechs and financial institutions across Brazil are utilizing Ripple to solve real-world liquidity and payments challenges:

• Banco Genial: Ripple powers same-day USD disbursements for Banco Genial, providing faster, more transparent cross-border payments — and now expanding to include RLUSD in its crypto flows.
• Braza Bank: One of Brazil’s largest FX institutions by volume, Braza Bank has selected Ripple Payments to streamline USD payments and issued its BRL-pegged stablecoin, BBRL on the XRP Ledger (XRPL).
• Nomad: The Brazilian fintech, serving over 3 million users, leverages Ripple Payments and its liquidity network to increase efficiency in treasury flows between Brazil and the US, while also enabling settlement through stablecoins such as RLUSD.
• Azify: The Brazilian fintech that embeds financial services infrastructure is now using Ripple Payments to exchange stablecoins into local currencies including USD, EUR, CNY, and SGD.
• ATTRUS: A leading LATAM payments firm leveraging Ripple for fast, compliant cross-border payments in Brazil and OTC crypto settlement — with RLUSD integrated into its broader settlement framework.
• Frente Corretora: An FX institution consolidating cross-border operations and stablecoin collections onto a single platform — funding USD and EUR payouts across the US and Europe using both fiat and USDT.

Enterprise-Grade Digital Asset Custody Comes to Brazil

Ripple Custody is expanding into Brazil, bringing bank-grade security, real-time compliance controls, and flexible deployment options to regulated institutions in the region. Ripple Custody provides the secure foundation institutions need to safely hold digital assets while enabling payments, trading, and tokenization workflows. It supports an extensive range of HSM providers, integrates Chainalysis and Elliptic for real-time transaction screening, and enables institutional staking across leading Proof-of-Stake networks all within a single, cohesive workflow.

• CRX: A Ripple partner leveraging XRPL and Ripple Custody to issue and deliver tokenized assets at scale, with nearly $100M settled on-chain.
• Justoken: With over $1.7 billion in assets already tokenized on the XRPL, Justoken will use Ripple Custody to build institutional-grade infrastructure for natural resources RWA tokenization in Latin America.

A New Standard for Stablecoin Trust and Utility in the Region

Ripple USD (RLUSD), Ripple’s enterprise-grade, USD-backed stablecoin, is gaining significant traction across Latin America as institutions look for trusted, regulated digital dollar infrastructure. Having surpassed $1.5 billion in market cap, RLUSD is one of the fastest-growing enterprise stablecoins in the market — designed for institutional use and backed by dual regulatory oversight from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), it is uniquely positioned to meet the compliance and reliability standards that financial institutions in the region demand.

In Brazil, RLUSD is already being adopted across some of the market’s most prominent exchanges and fintechs — with Mercado Bitcoin, Foxbit, Ripio, Braza Bank, Banco Genial and Attrus among the first in the region to list and support RLUSD — bringing a compliant, enterprise-ready stablecoin to millions of users across Latin America. As stablecoin adoption accelerates across the region, RLUSD’s combination of regulatory rigor, real-world utility, and deep integration across Ripple’s payments and prime brokerage platform positions it as the stablecoin of choice for institutions operating in Brazil and beyond.

Ripple Prime and Ripple Treasury: A New Era for Institutional Finance

For the first time, institutions have access to Ripple’s full institutional suite — spanning prime brokerage, clearing, financing, and treasury management. Ripple Prime, born from Ripple’s acquisition of global prime broker Hidden Road, gives institutions access to advanced services across FX, digital assets, derivatives, and fixed income, clearing over $3 trillion annually.

Ripple Treasury brings together decades of enterprise treasury expertise with Ripple’s digital asset infrastructure, enabling CFOs and treasurers to manage liquidity, payments, and risk in real time — unlocking idle capital through global repo market access, executing 24/7 cross-border payments at scale. Together, these two business lines give Brazilian institutions a complete, modern financial stack built for the digital economy.

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