{"id":61193,"date":"2022-05-09T17:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T14:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=61193"},"modified":"2025-09-05T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:43:19","slug":"sbi-holdings-subsidiary-enables-bitcoin-and-xrp-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/sbi-holdings-subsidiary-enables-bitcoin-and-xrp-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"SBI Holdings subsidiary enables Bitcoin and XRP payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Japanese conglomerate SBI Holdings, the firm SBI Motor Japan<a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.sbigroup.co.jp\/news\/2022\/0509_13026.html\\\"> has allowed<\/a> African customers to pay for used cars with Bitcoin and the XRP token.<\/p>\n<p>Cryptocurrency transactions will be carried out by SBI VC Trade Co., a platform affiliated with the group.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative was explained by growing demand for digital assets in developing countries, particularly in Africa. SBI cited World Bank data showing that in 2017 more than 1.7 billion people worldwide <a href=\\\"https:\/\/globalfindex.worldbank.org\/sites\/globalfindex\/files\/chapters\/2017%20Findex%20full%20report_chapter2.pdf\\\">did not have access to banking services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Partners of SBI Motor Japan will have to undergo <span data-descr=\\\"anti-money laundering\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">AML<\/span>-compliance checks.<\/p>\n<p>Aliasgar Merchant, a developer relations engineer at Ignite, told Cointelegraph that the <span data-descr=\\\"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">SEC<\/span> lawsuit against Ripple \u201cshould not hinder the deployment of the technology\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the startup&#8217;s CEO Brad Garlinghouse <a href=\\\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/bred-garlinghaus-otsenil-veroyatnost-zaversheniya-spora-s-sec-do-kontsa-2022-goda\/\\\">positively assessed the course<\/a> of the company&#8217;s dispute with the SEC, predicting its conclusion by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, one of Australia&#8217;s largest banks, National Australia Bank, together with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nab-and-cibc-use-ripple-technology-for-cross-border-payments\">selected the Ripple technology<\/a> for international payments.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s YouTube channel <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SBI Motor Japan, a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, has allowed African customers to pay for used cars with Bitcoin and the XRP token.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1198,112,1847],"class_list":["post-61193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crypto-payments","tag-ripple","tag-sbi-holdings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61195,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61193\/revisions\/61195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}