Standard Chartered Completes Cross-Border Blockchain Payment in 10 Seconds

Standard Chartered Completes Cross-Border Blockchain Payment in 10 Seconds

Tapping blockchain technology, London-based multinational banking and financial institution Standard Chartered has announced the completion of its first cross-border real-time payment. Standard Chartered is the latest bank to successfully implement a blockchain solution for the payments. As with many banks pulling off the feat for business transactions, Standard Chartered used Fintech startup Ripple’s enterprise blockchain platform. In this endeavor, the pilot saw a transaction ping over to an unnamed “major correspondent bank” to see the transaction complete in less than 10 seconds. This....


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