Despite the decline in the price of XRP in the past year, Ripple is expected to be valued at 25% higher from a funding round reported in November 2025.
Ripple Labs reportedly plans to buy back up to $750 million in shares from investors and employees, valuing the company at $50 billion.
According to a Wednesday Bloomberg report, Ripple plans to file an initial public offering for shares by April. According to reports, the $750 million buyback program values the company at $50 billion, a 25% increase from the value set for a $500 million raise in November 2025. The company’s president, Monica Long, said at the time that Ripple had no plans to go public.
The reported return follows Ripple’s expansion of operations beyond the crypto industry, including through the $1.2 billion acquisition of non-bank brokerage Hidden Road and treasury management system provider GTreasury in October. Earlier this week, the company said it was moving ahead with plans to acquire a financial services license in Australia by buying a local payments company.
On Monday, Ripple announced that it has processed more than $100 billion, with its stablecoin, Ripple USD (RLUSD), surpassing $1 billion in market capitalization since its launch in December 2024. The price of XRP (XRP) has fallen more than 53% in the past six months, at the time of public trading at $1.39.
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Data from private equity platform Forge Global showed a more than 9% drop in Ripple’s private equity price as of Wednesday.
Proceedings with the charter of the US National Trust Bank
In December, the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced that it had conditionally approved Ripple and other crypto companies for trust bank charters. The company specifically said in its filing that the charter for RLUSD would not be a “stablecoin issuer.”
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