On Thursday, Ripple, the company behind the XRP cryptocurrency, announced a significant step forward in its growth strategy with the $1 billion acquisition of GTreaury, a leading player in the treasury management systems market.
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The acquisition of GTreasury marks a key expansion for Ripple, giving it immediate access to multi-trillion-dollar assets corporate treasury market and a valuable portfolio of some of the most successful corporations around the world.
With over four decades of experience supporting treasury operations for renowned brands including Accenture, Cognizant, Boston Scientific and Bank Australia, GTreaury is expected to enhance Ripple’s capabilities in the financial sector.
Brad GarlinghouseCEO of Ripple, highlighted the challenges facing customary payment systems, stating:
For too long, money has been stuck in ponderous, old-fashioned payment systems and infrastructure, causing unnecessary delays, high costs and roadblocks to fresh markets – problems that blockchain technologies are ideally suited to solve.
Garlinghouse believes that by combining the strengths of Ripple and GTreaury, treasury and finance teams can finally unlock trapped capital, facilitate instant payments and discover fresh growth opportunities.
Third major acquisition in 2025
While the financial landscape is increasingly shifting towards digital assets treasury focused on cryptocurrencies investing in assets such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and also XRP, there is an urgent need for Fortune 500 CFOs and treasurers to effectively manage stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and other digital assets at scale.
According to the announcement, the integration of GTreaury’s digital asset infrastructure with Ripple solutions will enable customers to transfer, manage and optimize liquidity in real-time to effectively address these challenges.
Ripple and GTreasury aim to provide solutions that will allow corporations to unlock untapped capital by leveraging multi-trillion dollar profits global repo market through partnerships such as with prime broker Hidden Road, enabling organizations to earn greater profits on short-term assets.
This acquisition is Ripple’s third major transaction of 2025, following its purchase of master broker Hidden Road and stablecoin platform Rail. Monica Long, CEO of Ripple, expressed his enthusiasm for this newest addition, stating:
I’m excited that Ripple and GTreaury are helping corporations move money around the world faster and cheaper, 24/7, and actively manage and grow their money with secure and more capable solutions. This is the Ripple platform designed to work on a global corporate scale. The opportunity to unlock trillions of dollars of trapped capital for corporations is huge and ambitious – did I mention stimulating? Here we go.
Despite these fresh developments, the XRP price continues to show hefty losses of up to 20% over the last fourteen days, which has led to the current trading price of $2.37, which is 34% below its all-time high.
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