A number of global banks are joining forces to establish the first interbank group for global payments based on distributed ledger, or blockchain, technology, Ripple, a San Francisco-based financial technology firm announced on Friday. Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Santander, UniCredit, Standard Chartered, Westpac Banking Corp., and Royal Bank of Canada are the founding members […]
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