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MENA’s largest FinTech hub; Bahrain FinTech Bay and R3; a leading enterprise blockchain software provider have partnered to create opportunities for startups and enterprises. The strategic partnership will provide key resources and tools for blockchain

David Vatchev, Venture Development Lead at R3, shared with us some more on their recent partnership with Qatar Fintech Hub, their work in supporting the blockchain innovation ecosystem in the Middle East, some key challenges blockchain start-ups are cu

IBM and R3, an enterprise software firm, are collaborting to expand choice for clients scaling blockchain technology while delivering their highest levels of performance, compliance and data privacy. As part of the collaboration, R3 announced

At the heart of any blockchain project is digital identity, whether it is of people or things. Building the blocks on the blockchain starts with identifying who is what and who owns what. As such UNLOCK interviewed Mr. Abbas Ali, the head of digital id

Nasdaq, the architect and provider of the world’s most widely adopted market infrastructure technology and services, has entered into a long-term, non-exclusive, collaboration agreement with enterprise software firm, R3. As part of this co-operation, N

unchain.io, a Dutch software services provider, has successfully delivered a strategic finance application for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in partnership with enterprise software firm R3. The KLM Digital Studio is meant to explore how new technologie

Last week UNLOCK published various Blockchain news items for the GCC and MENA region. Some pertained to the launchings of actual Blockchain platform and solutions and some were about investments and entrances into the region. But all reflect the increa

Instimatch, a Swiss Fintech company that has established a Distributed Ledger Technology based platform for conducting money market trades, announced on its website recently that it has opened its regional MENA headquarters in Qatar Financial Cent

Commercial Bank, Qatar’s first award-winning private bank announced that it has participated in the first Blockchain Open Account Trade Finance Trial on the Marco Polo Platform, the biggest trial to date on the R3 Corda Network.

FinFabrik is a capital markets fintech incorporated in Hong Kong and Shenzhen.  It partners with institutions in private markets primarily in Asia to grow new digital asset channels powered by distributed technology on its CrossPool platform.

Backed by some of the world’s leading trade finance banks, Contour offers a network to improve processing time for Letters of Credit The launch follows a series of groundbreaking live pilots in 14 countries and a global trial with more than 50 ban

Penta Security and blockchain software firm R3 today announced that they have entered into a global strategic partnership for digital asset management and MPC (Multi-Party Computation) technology, combining Penta Security’s technologies and R3’s extensive enterprise blockchain platform, Corda.

CULedger, a credit union service organization (CUSO) that focuses on delivering the world’s premier network of one-to-one financial exchange for credit unions, unveiled a viable proof-of-concept version of CUPay, a highly secure electronic fu

TOMIA, which specializes in global connectivity monetization solutions, was delighted to take home the award for Best Blockchain Innovation at the 15th annual Global Carrier Awards in London.

Accenture, SAP SE and R3 are collaborating and co-innovating to build a real-time gross settlement system that will enable faster, more efficient, reliable and secure payments between banks and customers.With real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems,

The Ivno Corda Trial had 28 participating organisations creating $18bn denominated Trial Tokens and transferred them in the Ivno network demonstrating how instantly mobile collateral tokens could be used for instant settlement, collateral man

Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE: INFY), announced the successful completion of a global blockchain trial in partnership with R3, one of the fastest growing enterprise blockchain software companies

Mastercard and R3, a leading enterprise blockchain software provider, have today announced a strategic partnership to develop and pilot a new blockchain-enabled cross-border payments solution that will initially focus on connecting global faster paymen

SWIFT announces a proof of concept (PoC) to trial gpi Link, a gateway to interlink e-commerce and trading platforms with SWIFT gpi – the new standard in cross-border payments.gpi Link will seamlessly connect gpi members to multiple trade platforms ther

NTT DATA announced the company has been named a leader in two recent analyst firm reports: 2019 Blockchain Services PEAK Matrix Assessment by Everest Group and NelsonHall’s Blockchain in Business Process Transformation NEAT Evaluation. I

A member of the blockchain R3 consortium, RCI Bank and Services participated in the Know Your Customer POC that the firm organized in France. Working closely with the Association Française des Tresoriers d’Enterprise (AFTE), a total of 26 firms partici

The Voltron initiative has launched the open platform for documentary trade, targeting production on R3’s Corda Enterprise blockchain platform in 2019. Founding members of Voltron include Bangkok Bank, BNP Paribas, CTBC Holding, HSBC, ING, NatWest, SEB

In a first of its kind, HSBC India and ING Bank Brussels have executed a blockchain enabled, live trade finance transaction with Reliance Industries and Tricon Energy.The blockchain enabled Letter of Credit (LC) transaction facilitated the shipment bet

Payments Canada, the Bank of Canada, TMX Group, Accenture and R3 have published a report demonstrating the feasibility of clearing and settlement of securities using distributed ledger technology (DLT).The findings are a result of the third p

Technological change is having a major impact on financial services. In response to this development, the Bank of Thailand (BOT) and local financial institutions today agreed to launch a project to raise the Thai financial sector’s technological readin