ING and Other Top Banks Join R3 to Take the Next Step with Blockchain Technology
In September Bitcoin Magazine reported that nine global banks were pooling resources to fund R3, a next-generation global financial services company focused on applications of cryptographic technology and distributed ledger-based protocols within global financial markets. R3 will seek to establish consistent standards and protocols for this emerging....
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Two more Indian private banks have started conducting pilot transactions using blockchain technology, days after the country’s leading private sector bank, ICICI, completed its successful blockchain pilot. Axis Bank Ltd., and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd., are two of the latest banks to join the growing number of global financial institutions jumping onto the blockchain bandwagon. According to Indian publication Livemint, the two banks are experimenting with blockchain-based solutions in different sectors of businesses and industry. Chief among them are applications for cross-border remittance....
After long and careful consideration, R3CEV, better known as the R3 consortium, also simply called R3, reportedly denied the application of Russia’s Largest Bank, Sberbank, to join the rest of the banks in the consortium due to international sanctions against Russia. Since the introduction of Bitcoin and the concept of blockchain technology in 2009, the blockchain has represented the following attributes: decentralization, transparency, immutability and security. Perceiving the success of Bitcoin and other legitimate cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects such as Monero, Litecoin and....