Deloitte Building Irish Blockchain Lab with 50 Developers

Deloitte Building Irish Blockchain Lab with 50 Developers

Deloitte is set to rapidly scale its global plans for blockchain services by setting up a new development hub in Ireland. Announced today, Deloitte has created a financial services blockchain lab in Dublin, and will seek to grow that team to 50 people over the next 18 months. Called the EMEA Financial Services Blockchain Lab, the new development space is part of Deloitte’s FinTech initiative called the 'The Grid', which constitutes a network of labs around the world. The Dublin team, according to the company, will be tasked with developing blockchain proofs-of-concept into....


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