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Citi, HSBC Partner With R3CEV As Blockchain Project Adds 13 Banks
September 30th, 2015
Distributed ledger startup R3CEV has added 13 new banking partners, bringing the total number of banks involved in its activities to 22. In a release, R3 revealed Bank of America, BNY Mellon, Citi, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Mitsubishi UFJ ...
What’s next for blockchain and cryptocurrency
January 24th, 2017
In May of 2010, someone on a Bitcoin forum by the name of Lazlo claimed to have bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins. It was the first time anyone had purchased anything with the new digital currency, which at ...
R3 partners with Monetary Authority of Singapore to launch Asia Blockchain Centre of Excellence
November 9th, 2016
Financial innovation firm R3 has collaborated with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to launch its first dedicated distributed ledger technology (DLT) Center of Excellence in Asia as it continues to expand its presence in the region. As Singapore’s ...
China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) joins R3 distributed ledger consortium
November 3rd, 2016
Financial innovation firm R3 has announced the addition of China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), China’s official interbank market trading platform, to its consortium to design and apply distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies to global financial markets. Headquartered in Shanghai, CFETS ...
Blockchain platform developed by Banks to be Open-Source
October 23rd, 2016
A blockchain platform developed by a group that includes more than 70 of the world’s biggest financial institutions is making its code publicly available, in what could become the industry standard for the nascent technology. The Corda platform has ...
Russian Finance Firms Form Blockchain Consortium
July 4th, 2016
A group of Russian banks and financial services companies has formed a private-sector consortium focused on blockchain applications. Announced 1st July, the consortium includes payment processing firm QIWI, B&N Bank, Khanty-Mansiysk Otkritie Bank, Tinkoff Bank, MDM Bank, and professional services firm Accenture. The launch came during the 25th International ...
PwC Report: Blockchain a ‘Once in a Generation’ Opportunity for Financial Services
March 30th, 2016
Blockchain marks the next “jump” in business process/optimization technology, according to a newly-released PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report on fintech. The report, “Blurred lines: How FinTech is shaping Financial Services,” compares blockchain to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software that allowed entities and functions within a ...
7 Asian Banks Investigating Bitcoin and Blockchain Tech
February 17th, 2016
Until recently, there was a noticeable lack of interest in bitcoin and the blockchain among the financial institutions of Asia. In fact, banks there were more likely to be issuing warnings about digital currencies than getting involved in any related activity. It was the fall of Mt Gox in ...
Japan’s Largest Bank developed its own digital currency
February 4th, 2016
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG) has revealed that it has developed its own digital currency nicknamed “MUFG coin” as part of its research into blockchain and distributed ledger technology. According to The Asahi Shimbun, the digital currency project seeks ...
R3 brings eleven major global financial institutions together on a cloud based distributed ledger
January 21st, 2016
Financial technology innovation company, R3 CEV, today announced the successful completion of a ground breaking distributed ledger experiment involving eleven of the world’s largest financial institutions. R3 and consortium member banks Barclays, BMO Financial Group, Credit Suisse, Commonwealth Bank of ...
