Global Banks Partner to Form Blockchain Payments Network
Bank of America, Santander and the Royal Bank of Canada have today announced they’ve joined forces to create a global blockchain payments network using Ripple’s distributed ledger technology. UniCredit, Standard Charted and the Westpac Banking Corporation have also joined the effort, which seeks to form the foundation of a global network that performs a similar service as SWIFT inter-bank messaging but with near-instant settlement times. Canadian bank CIBC is also participating. Fundamental to the Global Payments Steering Group’s early mission is the creation and maintenance of a payments....
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