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Former Bank of America Executive Joins Ripple as Head of Regulatory Affairs

The blockchain startup Ripple is currently facing some major regulatory hurdles as investors have raised questions over the state of XRP being securities. To tackle this matter at hand, Ripple has brought some financial industry heavyweights to its board.

In one such move, Ripple has recently appointed ex Bank of America executive – Benjamin Melnicki – as its head of Regulatory Affairs. Melnicki’s job at Ripple will be communicating and maintaining absolute transparency regarding Ripple’s dealing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Excited to join @Ripple as Americas Head of Regulatory Affairs! Look forward to working with policy makers and regulators to make an impact on the industry.

— Ben Melnicki (@benmelnicki) October 28, 2019

In the financial circle, Melnicki is known as a taskmaster in dealing with regulatory concerns. In the past, he worked as the Chief Compliance Officer for Noble Bank International as well as served as the Global Regulatory Council at a Blockchain crypto wallet provider.

Ripple’s XRP token which has been an underperformer so far in 2019, has seen a massive surge in daily transactions in the last 24 hours. As per BitInfoCharts, XRP alone contributed 50% of the overall cryptocurrency transactions in the last 24 hours.

XRP recorded a massive 1.6 million daily transactions on Monday, October 28. It was the first time since the crypto bull-run of December 2017 that XRP has seen such huge transactions. The reason behind such a huge surge in daily transactions is unclear at this stage. But we never know what is cooking behind the scenes.

Having traded around $0.30 for a long time, analysts believe that the bottom of XRP is already reached. Popular crypto analyst Peter Brandt said that the XRP chart has formed a diamond pattern. He adds that once XRP price crosses $0.308 levels, it can show a sudden surge up to $0.4692, a 54% breakout in the XRP price.

The diamond pattern has always been a top pattern among traditional markets. I suppose pattern might work for a bottom in crypto markets. If you want to know what a very clean diamond looks like, see $XRP pic.twitter.com/nu5sUS01TT

— Peter Brandt (@PeterLBrandt) October 25, 2019

Supporting the possibility of bullish momentum in XRP, another analyst CryptoGainz said that XRP has formed an inverse head-and-shoulders reversal pattern. A move above $0.3077 will spark the bullish momentum.

uhh $xrp is a powder keg here
when this pops, it's going into the heavens ngl pic.twitter.com/0LO5KCr2Or

— CryptoGainz (@CryptoGainz1) October 26, 2019

Another crypto trader Loma also expects a bullish breakout if XRP price crosses its diagonal resistance of $0.30.

$XRP

For my USD-pairing friends.

Also drawn a few days ago.

H4 TF looks like we're about to find out if Swell is gonna be a success or not.. pic.twitter.com/svtBle5DMp

— Loma (@LomahCrypto) October 29, 2019

Last year, Ripple entered a partnership with financial and payments services giant MoneyGram. The aim of this partnership was to speed up the global remittance with Ripple being the technology provider offering its blockchain-based instant payment solutions to MoneyGram.

According to the deal, Ripple will be providing on-demand liquidity to MoneyGram customers through its xRapid payment solution. The xRapid payment solution uses XRP tokens to facilitate faster cross-border payments.

However, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse recently received a call from MoneyGram CEO Alex Holmes wherein the latter expressed disappointment over the speed of XRapid’s growth and progress. Reportedly, Holmes also asked Ripple CEO if they were planning to launch on-demand liquidity in more markets.

Former Bank of America Executive Joins Ripple as Head of Regulatory Affairs

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