On Wednesday, April 1, Ripple announced two major additions to the Ripple Treasury platform: Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury.
The company describes these features as the first native digital asset capabilities built directly into a treasury management system, designed so that corporate finance teams can treat cryptocurrency holdings in the same way as cash.
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According to Ripple, newly revealed update provides finance and treasury teams with a single, unified view of liquidity by aggregating balances from bank accounts, custody providers and wallets on-chain.
This consolidated dashboard provides real-time visibility into both fiat and digital assets, eliminating the need for separate systems, manual reconciliations, and time-consuming data consolidation.
Family offices and corporate treasury groups can now view, store, receive and manage fiat i digital fluency stored in banks and custodians on a single platform, Ripple said.
Renaat Ver Eecke, senior vice president of Ripple Treasury, described this launch as a response to the changed reality at the CFO level. “Digital assets have landed on the CFO’s desk and the question has shifted from whether to get involved to how to do it profitably without disrupting existing operations,” he said.
Ver Eecke added that Ripple Treasury provides “a trusted place to store and manage digital and fiat assets – without a separate interface, without new workflows, and without the need to navigate deposits, wallets or exchanges yourself,” calling it an unprecedented digital solution for corporate treasuries.
Unified treasury accounts and digital assets
Ripple said the modern features include several technical features aimed at improving accounting accuracy and auditability. According to the company, Digital Asset Accounts will display real-time fiat valuations based on live exchange rates from market data providers.
They will also record nominal amounts to reflect these nominal value in the chain and reduce rounding discrepancies, and automatically record each transaction with its native denomination, its fiat equivalent and the market price at the time of the event to provide an audit trail.
On the other hand, the company described Unified Treasury as a consolidated reporting interface that aggregates positions held across multiple custodians and banks via the ClearConnect connectivity layer – the same integration layer Ripple uses for banking connections.
The company said the feature supports direct functionality application programming interface (API) connections to several digital asset providers, and Ripple reports may take a few minutes to implement.
Ripple also revealed that both features are designed to be deployed on their own timeline and integrated without disrupting existing approval processes, audit trails or compliance controls.
Looking ahead, future expansions will connect to Ripple’s existing cross-border and inter-company settlement products and add features such as 24/7 unspent cash yield via overnight repo, powered by stablecoins and other digital assets.
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