Consortium

The Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts – ‘IC3’, a NYC-based consortium of leading academics and industry leaders who are driving innovations in blockchains and distributed ledgers for financial and other applications, has released three...

Chinese P2P platform Dianrong.com has announced it is joining the Hyperledger Project. The company also recently joined the ‘2016 Top 50 Chinese Enterprises with Highest Growth Value’ thanks to its ‘outstanding performance and market...

Last week in Wanchai, Hong Kong, blockchain advisory firm Chain of Things held its first Chain of Shipping conference. Designed to give professionals from the shipping industry and blockchain developers a view into the...

Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin have published a new white paper, ‘Blockchain and Shared Ledgers: The New Age of the Consortium’, examining the differences between private shared ledgers and public blockchain to support...

42 Japanese banks have come together to form the ‘Japan Bank Consortium to Central Provide Domestic and Cross-border Payment’ or the ‘Consortium’. Members include regional financial institutions and internet-only banks with a secretariat consisting...

R3 Consortium has developed the Corda - a platform which represents a combined effort between banks, insurers, fund managers and other to develop blockchain technology for use in the financial markets. R3 says it...

The shipping industry is stifled by paper based processes, delayed detection of quality control issues, expensive proceedings for contract dispute arbitration, and massive amounts of documentation fraud. Even though the industry has been slow...

Global provider of financial settlement solutions, Ripple has announced that a number of global banks are combining to establish the first interbank group for global payments based on blockchain technology. Bank of America Merrill...

We are seeing that the overwhelming trend in distributed ledger technology is that it is being developed in a fairly open source environment. Bitcoin and Ethereum are open source projects and changes to the code...

Information technology, consulting, and business process service provider Cognizant has joined the Executive Committee of the Chamber of Digital Commerce. The Chamber is the world’s leading trade association representing the blockchain industry and works...