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27yr SWIFT veteran promotes XRP in ISO 20022 upgrade

ISO 20022 specialist with 27 years of SWIFT experience names XRP Ledger in new bank messaging specification.

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Jun 10, 2026
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A SWIFT insider just wrote the XRP Ledger (XRPL) into the code.

He was the man who spent 27 years building the language for intrabank messaging system. Today, he made it speak XRPL fluently.

A man who spent his career inside the world’s most valuable bank wire network, SWIFT, just published new code that points banks straight at the XRP token.

His name is Tom Alaerts. For nearly three decades, this standards specialist helped SWIFT write and optimize ISO 20022, the messaging language that thousands of banks use to talk to each other. If money is going to move between two banks on opposite sides of the planet, it speaks this language first.

(For any purists out there, forgive my casual language in explaining ISO 20022 to the common audience. I know you want me to write a schematic with footnotes, but please, bear with me for the sake of your fellow citizen. Breathe. 😎)

Alaerts has built something new called pacs.crypto, which is code, not a website. It is free, open-source, and anyone can read it on GitHub. Think of it as a translator that lets a normal bank message hop onto a blockchain without losing anything in transit.

And buried in that bank messaging translator, listed right alongside Bitcoin, is the XRPL.

He wrote XRP into the code.

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