THELOGICALINDIAN - French bunch coffer and banking casework aggregation BNP Paribas is captivation its aboriginal Blockchain Bizhackathon in New York for the Americas belvedere The accident will be in New York City on September 7 and 8 hosting added than 50 participants
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American Blockchain Bizhackathon
The American Blockchain Bizhackathon will accompany calm blockchain experts and BNP Paribas audience and vendors.
Participants will analyze how blockchain technology can “advance the consumer/client acquaintance and advance the ability of the casework offered in altered areas of BNP Paribas’ CIB platform,” according to the announcement.
“BNP Paribas’ focus on new technology has been a antecedence for decades so we are animated to be hosting the First Americas Bizhackathon in New York,” Bruno d’Illiers, Deputy Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking Americas, said.
During the event, the coffer will additionally bare their new centralized Innovation Lab at their American arch appointment in New York.
D’Illiers additionally noted:
The keynote speakers on September 7 include:
Previous Blockchain Bizhackathon
In February, the coffer completed its aboriginal ‘Blockchain Bizhackathon‘ for transaction banking. It was additionally a two-day event, and had added than 70 participants.
BNP Paribas arch of Accumulated Trade and Treasury Solutions, Marc Carlos, said that this Bizhackathon helped the coffer “highlight the opportunities of the blockchain for our breeze costs activities and our banking casework to accumulated treasurers, as able-bodied as its abeyant applications to advance our practices, analysis and optimise our processes, and reinforce the reliability, traceability and aegis of our transactions.”
BNP Paribas’ Blockchain Efforts
BNP Paribas has been exploring blockchain technology
since 2011. The coffer is allotment of the R3 bunch of 60 top banking institutions, as able-bodied as the European CDC initiative. The aggregation is additionally on the lath of Blythe Masters’ Digital Asset Holdings.
In April, the coffer partnered with French crowdfunding 
platform SmartAngels to run a blockchain pilot program. Under the partnership, the coffer is developing a blockchain-based allotment annals which will automatically annals banking balance issued by SmartAngels’ applicant companies.
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