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R3 banking blockchain consortium partners with Microsoft Azure
April 5th, 2016
The R3 distributed ledger consortium of 40-plus global banks has chosen Microsoft Azure cloud to host its labs and provide its members with easy access to those firms already added to Azure’s Blockchain as a Service platform. R3 named ...
Financial services group based in Japan will Join Blockchain Consortium R3
March 15th, 2016
SBI Holdings, Inc. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and CEO: Yoshitaka Kitao; “SBIH”) hereby announces that it will join blockchain consortium R3 led by R3 CEV LLC (Head Office: New York City, New York State, U.S.; CEO: David ...
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 ...
Blockchain consortium R3 opens its doors to exchanges and clearing houses in 2016
December 17th, 2015
Blockchain standards builder R3 has opened its doors to non-bank financial services firms including funds, exchanges, clearing houses, standards bodies and infrastructure companies, from early in 2016. R3 also announced the addition of another 12 banks, taking the total ...
BNP Paribas joins the R3 Blockchain Initiative
November 24th, 2015
The Group joins the R3 Blockchain initiative, which aims to establish whether an industry standard can be developed around Blockchain technology. This approach is part of the strategy of BNP Paribas, placing digital at the heart of its business ...
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 ...
Blockchain expert Tim Swanson talks about R3 partnership of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, Barclays et al
September 16th, 2015
Nine of the world’s biggest banks from both sides of the Atlantic and Asia Pacific have agreed to join a partnership to divine a set of common standards and practices towards constructing a shared digital ledger system for financial ...
The pound pushed higher on Monday
March 29th, 2021
The pound pushed higher on Monday as the UK’s vaccine rollout programme steamed ahead and the economy started to reopen under prime minister Boris Johnson’s roadmap out of lockdown. Sterling was 0.4% up against the dollar at €1.3844 and ...
Pound climbs as UK business secretary talks Brexit trade deal ‘progress’
November 19th, 2020
The pound has continued to make a steady climb against the US dollar on Wednesday, after the UK business secretary Alok Sharma provided updates on the nation’s “progress” on sealing a Brexit trade deal with the European Union (EU). ...
EU expecting COVID-19 dent in 2020 VAT collections
September 30th, 2020
The European Commission has published its latest VAT gap report, which show that EU countries lost an estimated EUR140bn (USD165.7bn) in VAT revenues in 2018, down EUR1bn in nominal terms on the year prior. The “VAT gap” measures the ...
