Jack Pouderoyen, SWIFT’s Head of Digital Asset Strategy, recently spoke with Finextra Research about where the global financial system is heading. His words covered 24/7 cross-border payments, programmable digital cash, atomic settlement, and tokenized securities.
Crypto commentator X Finance Bull took notice, and shared on X what he sees as a striking alignment between that vision and what Ripple has already built around XRP.
SWIFT’s new ledger currently has 17 banks across six continents, with more than 40 institutions involved in development. Transactions span USD, EUR, GBP, HKD, and SGD. Pouderoyen described what institutions are actively trying to solve.
“As you mentioned, there’s obviously the 24-7 payment piece. That’s quite critical,” he said. He went on to explain that banks with tokenized deposit capabilities see real value in moving liquidity around the globe at any hour, across jurisdictions. He also described growing demand for “a digital cash leg, something that can be used in a 24-7 programmatic basis” to enable atomic settlement, delivery versus payment of securities, and payment versus payment for FX transactions.
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Jack Pouderoyen, SWIFT’s Head of Digital Asset Strategy, is talking about banks moving toward 24/7 cross-border payments, programmable digital cash, tokenized securities and atomic settlement.
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— X Finance Bull (@Xfinancebull) October 22, 2026
Ripple Has Already Built Around These Needs
X Finance Bull pointed to what Ripple has already assembled. Ripple has outlined atomic settlement using RLUSD as the digital cash leg. Ondo, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, Mastercard, and Ripple already completed a tokenized U.S. Treasury redemption involving XRPL, with the asset leg settling in under five seconds.
The list of institutions building around RLUSD, tokenized funds, custody, collateral, and settlement includes Standard Chartered, DBS, Franklin Templeton, BNY, Aviva Investors, DriveWealth, CSD BR, BTG Pactual, and Meritz Securities.
The FX Angle
X Finance Bull highlighted FX as the piece that excites him most. Global FX turnover runs around $9.6T per day, with more than $14T in gross daily settlement obligations. XRP carries native cross-currency routing and auto-bridging capabilities, features that align with the settlement infrastructure Pouderoyen described.
What X Finance Bull Sees
SWIFT made no announcement about XRP in the interview. X Finance Bull was clear about that. His argument is that SWIFT is describing a financial world Ripple has spent years preparing XRP for. “They are describing the exact financial world Ripple has been preparing $XRP for,” he wrote. “And I think that is MASSIVE.”
The convergence he sees is not an official endorsement. It is a structural observation. The capabilities Pouderoyen outlined, 24/7 settlement, programmable digital cash, atomic transaction finality, are already present across Ripple’s ecosystem. Whether SWIFT and Ripple’s paths eventually intersect remains to be seen. The infrastructure on both sides, however, is already moving in the same direction.
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