Barclays Uses Blockchain To Conduct Its First Trade Finance Transaction
Barclays, the UK banking company, teamed up with an Israeli startup to carry out the bank’s first Blockchain-based trade transaction. This allowed Barclays to send a transaction within minutes, both cost effectively and securely, rather than using the traditional transaction process which normally takes hours or days. According to Barclays, the transaction was approximately $100,000 worth of dairy products from an Irish food company, Ornua to the Seychelles Trading Company. Baihas Baghdadi, Barclays' Global Head of Trade and Working Capital, states: "We've proved the reality of this....
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