• Ripple acquires GTreasury for $1 billion, expanding into the $120 trillion corporate payments market.  
• The deal aims to unlock trillions in trapped capital through real-time blockchain payments.  
• Ripple strengthens its 2025 acquisition streak after buying Hidden Road and Rail. 

Ripple has announced the $1 billion acquisition of GTreasury, a global leader in treasury management systems, marking a major step into the multi-trillion-dollar corporate treasury payments market.

The move is part of Ripple’s broader plan to modernize global payments using blockchain and digital asset infrastructure.  

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, stated that the acquisition gives Ripple access to the $120 trillion corporate treasury payments sector. He emphasized that legacy financial systems have trapped vast amounts of cash due to inefficiencies, high costs, and outdated infrastructure.

Today, Ripple is breaking into the $120T corporate treasury payments market with the $1B acquisition of GTreasury.

The past few years have reminded this industry why payments, first and foremost, is THE primary use case for crypto and blockchain. Payments are where Ripple first…

— Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) October 16, 2025

The partnership with GTreasury aims to address these issues by enabling treasurers to manage digital assets, stablecoins, and tokenized deposits at scale.  

Monica Long, Ripple’s President, commented that the partnership aims at facilitating the transfer of funds across borders more quickly and inexpensively, with round-the-clock access to liquidity.

I’m excited for Ripple and GTreasury to help corporates move money around the world faster, cheaper, 24/7/365, and actively manage and grow their money through safe, more efficient solutions. It’s the Ripple platform put to work at the global corporate scale. The opportunity to… https://t.co/eIDycyBRPj

— Monica Long (@MonicaLongSF) October 16, 2025

She went on and confirmed that the merged platform enables businesses to manage and grow their assets actively with secure, blockchain-enabled solutions. Its aim is the liberation of the trillions in stagnant capital trapped in low payout channels.

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GTreasury Brings Four Decades of Expertise  

GTreasury, which has catered to leading global brands for more than 40 years, boasts its high-end cash forecasting, risk management, and compliance software.

Its networks already facilitate Fortune 500 businesses, and the collaboration with Ripple introduces the potential for blockchain technology into its classical treasury infrastructure.

CEO Renaat Ver Eecke described the acquisition as the corporate finance industry’s turning point, combining its classical compliance norms with the speed and digital asset technology offered by Ripple.

With Ripple’s blockchain network, GTreasury customers will benefit from having access to real-time payments 24/7/365 and improved liquidity management.

The partnership also extends to having integration with prime broker Hidden Road, which allows access to the global repo market, where businesses have the opportunity to earn income from short-term assets that were unproductively sitting idle.

Ripple Strengthens 2025 Expansion Drive  

It’s Ripple’s third big acquisition in 2025 after its acquisitions of Hidden Road and stablecoin platform Rail. The moves are symbolically representative of Ripple’s expanding dominance in the fintech sector, with the backing of a healthy balance sheet and a grand plan of assimilating the world’s finances with the use of blockchain.

When the transaction closes and the transaction receives regulatory approval, Ripple will be well-positioned to empower some of the globe’s largest organizations to transform the way CFOs move, manage, and maximize liquidity in a rapidly digitizing economy.

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