XRP News: RLUSD Just Crossed $1.5 Billion and Six of Brazil’s Biggest Financial Institutions Are Already On Board

Ripple has announced its most significant expansion in Latin America to date, moving well beyond its original payments focus to position itself as a full-service institutional financial infrastructure provider in Brazil, one of the world’s most active and rapidly evolving digital asset markets.

The announcement, made from São Paulo on Monday, covers five distinct product lines: cross-border payments, digital asset custody, stablecoin infrastructure, prime brokerage, and treasury management. Ripple is also applying for a Virtual Asset Service Provider licence with the Central Bank of Brazil, signalling a long-term regulatory commitment to the market rather than opportunistic participation.

Why Brazil

Brazil is not a speculative bet for Ripple. It is already a functioning market. The company has processed over $100 billion in payments volume globally and holds coverage across more than 60 markets. In Brazil specifically, a roster of established financial institutions has already integrated Ripple infrastructure into live operations.

Banco Genial is using Ripple for same-day USD disbursements and is expanding into RLUSD settlement. Braza Bank, one of Brazil’s largest foreign exchange institutions by volume, has issued a Brazilian Real-pegged stablecoin directly on the XRP Ledger. 

Nomad, a fintech serving over three million users, uses Ripple to manage treasury flows between Brazil and the United States. Justoken has already tokenised over $1.7 billion in assets on the XRP Ledger and will use Ripple Custody to expand into natural resource tokenisation across Latin America.

RLUSD Gaining Ground Fast

Ripple’s USD-backed stablecoin RLUSD has surpassed $1.5 billion in market cap and is already listed by Mercado Bitcoin, Foxbit, Ripio, Braza Bank, Banco Genial and Attrus in the Brazilian market. Backed by regulatory oversight from both the New York Department of Financial Services and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, it carries compliance credentials that most stablecoins competing in the enterprise space cannot match.

The expansion coincides with Ripple Prime, its institutional brokerage business built from the acquisition of Hidden Road, which clears over $3 trillion annually across FX, digital assets, derivatives and fixed income. 

Combined with Ripple Treasury, which gives corporate finance teams real-time liquidity management and 24/7 cross-border payment execution, Ripple is no longer pitching itself as a payments company with crypto ambitions.

It is pitching itself as the financial operating system for institutions in a digitising economy. Brazil, with its advanced regulatory framework and large financially active population, is where that pitch is being tested at scale first.