April 25, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Itaú becomes first Latin America bank to join distributed ledger technology consortium R3

Itaú Unibanco, the largest private sector bank in Latin America, has signed a partnership agreement with R3, an international innovation firm, for developing solutions from Blockchain-based distributed ledger technologies. Blockchain, the solution behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, is a successful example of the practical application of distributed ledger technologies. In addition to cryptocurrencies, this technology…

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