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Western Union made a bunch of press by announcing they would be leveraging Ripple to streamline their international payments and reduce costs.

Last month they announce that they are parting ways as the Ripple hype did not deliver: http://fortune.com/2018/06/13/ripple-xrp-cryptocurrency-west...

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Not true. Direct quotes from the article:

Still, Ersek cautioned that the pilot may be too early on and “too small” to draw conclusions, as Western Union has only tested the cryptocurrency for transfers between two currencies—U.S. dollars and Mexican pesos—so far.

“I don’t want to kill it,” Ersek said of the partnership, adding that the Ripple team working with Western Union “are good people” who are “very innovative.”

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