Tag: SWIFT
Global Payments: Are we past the First Bad Pancake?
Or shall we make it plural? If everyone from SWIFT to Visa to Facebook to IBM to Unbounded to even JP Morgan is going...
IBM will create a payment system Blockchain World Wire based on the Stellar protocol
American technology giant IBM announced the development of a new payment system, Blockchain World Wire, which will be based on the Stellar protocol. It...
Blockchain – Cue for a SWIFT-er world
Even Erno Rubik
would feel like Edward Scissorhands here. In the global-payments spacePutting everything
on its right axis – speed, precision, real-time nuances, user-friendliness,
global ease, reliability,...
Is Iran a Russian proving ground for testing national cryptocurrency idea?
The whole situation about Iranian cryptocurrency is very exciting as it sets the new level of adoption of the cryptocurrency in general. This is...
SWIFT: blockchain is not suitable for bank cross-border payments
The SWIFT global cross-border payments system believes that the blockchain is not suitable for solving the problem of delay in cross-border bank payments. The...
Central Bank of Iran introduced Payman cryptocurrency
After a year of speculation and news about various improvements, Iran has finally introduced Payman digital currency.State-supported cryptocurrency will be used to circumvent sanctions...
Iran offers monetary transactions in cryptocurrency to eight countries
Iran, whose economy suffers from international economic sanctions, is discussing the use of its state cryptocurrency in the transactions with eight countries. This is...
SWIFT publicly “wiped the nose” of Ripple, choosing the R3 blockchain
Gottfried Leibbrandt, CEO of the main international payment network of SWIFT, announced his company's plans to integrate R3's Corda technology to improve the level...
An IBM answer to SWIFT and xRapid
American technical giant IBM announced the creation of a SWIFT competitor - a global payment blockchain system based on the Stellar protocol.IBM plans to present the...