The San Francisco-based Ripple has made some tremendous progress in terms of planting itself as a major player in the remittance market. As Ripple aggressively expands to new corridors, the US-Mexico has been one of the most significant corridors for the blockchain firm.
XRP/MXN on the Mexican crypto platform, Bitso saw a steady trading activity since 2019. The volumes spiked in the second week of September. Another spike propelled the figures to touch an all-time high of 14.5 million XRP this month.
Source: Liquidity Bot Index | Liquidity Index for Bitso XRP/MXN [28-day moving trend]
“In the last seven months when exchanges worldwide were losing volume, we were actually increasing our volume, we were actually increasing our volume. This is because we have spent a long time building a remittance solution. And this is important as it goes back to crypto as a utility, it goes back to a business model where you don’t necessarily depend on crypto prices increasing to do very well.”
According to the latest BBVA research, remittance to Mexico by 2020 could reach $37,200 million. In 2018, it represented 2.7% of the total GDP. Highlighting the growing remittance in Mexico and the need for efficient solutions in the space, Vogel stated,
“In Mexico alone, you have 125 million people, over 87 million of those are connected on smartphones so these are internet-enabled devices. And yet you have under 40 million bank accounts in the country and about 22 million of those bank accounts are bank accounts that people don’t use. There is a ton of need in the region to have access to better financial services. “
Bitso has been in the remittance game for a long time now, and the increase in the remittance market could significantly open up new avenues for the platform.
