Cambridge Global Payments, a FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc. owned B2B international payments provider announced today they will launch a pilot program with Ripple, the global blockchain payments solution for enterprise.

Cambridge processes over $20 billion in B2B cross-border payments annually, helping 13,000 business clients make international payments to suppliers and employees.Joining a growing list of firms opting to experiment with Ripple as 2018 gets underway, through the agreement, Cambridge will pilot the use of XRP, the native digital asset of the XRP Ledger, in payment flows through xRapid, Ripple’s solution for on-demand liquidity.

The xRapid pilot program builds on an existing relationship between Cambridge and Ripple which has been exploring similar advantages of xCurrent, Ripple’s enterprise software for messaging and international transaction settlement. xCurrent allows financial institutions to communicate information about a payment between each other in real-time, and settle the payment instantly.