China Merchants Bank become second Chinese firm to join R3 distributed ledger consortium LeapRate

September 02, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

China Merchants Bank become second Chinese firm to join R3 distributed ledger consortium

The R3 distributed ledger consortium has announced that Chinese banking giant China Merchants Bank Co. Ltd (SHA:600036) has become the latest member to join R3. China Merchants Bank, or CMB, becomes the second major China-based group to join R3. We had earlier reported that Ping An Financial Services Group had become an R3 member back in May. The R3…

August 31, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

MetLife becomes second major insurance group to join R3 distributed ledger consortium

The R3 distributed ledger consortium has announced that U.S. insurance giant Metlife Inc (NYSE:MET) has become the latest member to join R3. MetLife becomes the second major insurance group to join R3. We had earlier reported that AIA Group Ltd (HKG:1299), the largest independent publicly listed pan-Asian life insurance group, had become an R3 member back in…

August 02, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters to join R3 blockchain consortium

Thomson Reuters has joined financial innovation firm R3’s partnership to design and apply distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies to global financial markets. As a leading source of news and information for professional markets, Thomson Reuters will contribute insights from its work with customers to drive product innovation and transformation in the financial sector using distributed…

July 12, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Barclays subsidiary Absa Bank becomes first Africa member of R3 Blockchain consortium

Absa joins recent R3 members Banco Bradesco, AIA Group, Toyota Financial, Itau, and Ping An as R3 continues its truly global expansion.

June 29, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

R3 blockchain consortium continues Latin America expansion adding Brazil's Banco Bradesco

Banco Bradesco, one of the biggest banking and financial services companies in Brazil, has joined financial innovation firm R3’s partnership to design and apply distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies to global financial markets. We had earlier reported that Itaú Unibanco, the largest private sector bank in Latin America, became the first Latin America bank to…

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