Standard Chartered & DBS Work on Blockchain Tech for Trade Finance

Standard Chartered & DBS Work on Blockchain Tech for Trade Finance

London-based Standard Chartered and Singapore-based bank DBS have partnered together to develop a distributed ledger for trade finance in Singapore after successfully testing the technology among each other. As reported by Bloomberg, the two banks are coming together to work and develop a distributed ledger in order to make transactions simpler and more transparent in trade finance. The publication adds that the two banks have tested the distributed ledger between themselves, successfully, and will invite other companies to collaborate with the now proof-of-concept system in 2016. The....


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