Banks Take Sides as Blockchain Trade Finance Race Heats Up NatWest, part of Royal Bank of Scotland, has joined Marco Polo, a blockchain consortium started by R3 and trade finance specialist TradeIX.… Read More
R3 Launches Corda Enterprise With First-Ever ‘Blockchain Firewall’ Not a traditional firewall, the term denotes how Corda is able to limit communication between blockchain nodes operating in different environments.… Read More
Big Insurers Are Uniting Behind R3’s Blockchain Tech The RiskBlock Alliance, whose members include insurance giants Chubb, Marsh and Liberty Mutual, has decided to build its blockchain on R3’s Corda.… Read More
Bankers Tout Trade Finance as the Sweet Spot for Blockchain London’s Blockchain Summit heard banks weigh the possible savings blockchain could bring to global trade – as well as noting the pain points.… Read More
Banks Are Trying to Launch Crypto Assets with R3 Blockchain Tech Stealth project Cordite, led by the Royal Bank of Scotland, promises the equivalent of an ERC-20 token standard for R3’s open-source Corda platform.… Read More
HSBC Exec Warns ‘Digital Islands’ Could Inhibit Blockchain Trade Blockchains should do for the global value chain what shipping containers did for transport of goods, says HSBC trade finance expert Vinay Mendonca.… Read More