Hong Kong Insurance Firm AIA Joins R3 Blockchain Consortium
New York-based R3, the blockchain startup heading the prominent private banking blockchain consortium has now added Hong Kong-based life insurance group AIA. Blockchain startup R3 is continuing its foray to recruit Asian financial institutions with the addition of AIA Group, a Hong Kong-based life insurance group to its roster of global members. The AIA Group, the largest publicly listed independent pan-Asian life insurance group will collaborate with 50 of the world’s largest financial institutions, including banks, to develop blockchain-based commercial applications for the financial....
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