Commonwealth Bank Seeks Leading Blockchain Role with Sydney Conference
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia will host a two-day blockchain conference in Sydney next month in an attempt to explore the technology's potential. According to a Computerworld report, the bank - which recently partnered with distributed ledger startup R3CEV and has experimented with Ripple's technology - has teamed up with Coala, a research organisation which had already organised an international series of blockchain events. David Whiteing, CIO at Commonwealth Bank, said: "Blockchain has the potential to transform banking in the way that the Internet transformed how we buy music and....
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