It appears that the following is happening:

Every bank is going to have to adopt digital assets plain and simple.

Ripple team knew this.

Banks either play ball or they die. They have huge problems anyway with gold and silver reserves. They play ball by commiting to digital wallets and the conversion protocol for fiat into digital.

So when the banks utilize CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies) or some other token for smaller banks, they will need a protocol to convert FIAT into digital to be stored in customers digital wallets.

Because these are all tokens on the blockchain they will have to use a blockchain based protocol.

Well, just look at the fees with BTC, ETH. There’s no question this conversion protocol is going to be done using XRP due the .0001 fee.

Oh and by the way, XRP is not only built for this but is also using the ISO20022 standard whereas other tokens aren’t.

Are you grasping magnitude of this yet?

DoQ, went on to KuCoin, VK said it was easy ... can't find any XRP to buy ... seems its gone down a bit and no one is selling, or that I am VERY unfamiliar with this platform / buying crypto, so its me.
I understand XRP will be handling major transactions for large institutions ... is it possible to Buy "stock" in XRP?

Its being blocked it seems in the USA while the Sec is suing Ripple. You can buy it on Uphold but it is difficult to get it onto a hard wallet but you can keep jt on Uphold . You can only buy like $500 a week I think it is .
You used to be able to put VPN to London to buy on Binance but they are now asking for UK ID before you buy.

Interesting ... so where ever you buy are you then beholden to only buy and sell with them? Asking for a UK ID is not cool.

I use Coinbase to buy USD coin. I send the USD coin to my Kucoin wallet to purchase XRP, which I send to my Trust wallet.