THELOGICALINDIAN - Five above banks in South Korea accept abutting the Interbank Information Network IIN JPMorgans blockchain payments activity This account added increases the Asian attendance in the IIN initiative
Over 300 Banks Interested in JPMorgan’s IIN
According to Fn News, bristles of the better banks in South Korea accept signed up to be allotment of JPMorgan’s IIN. These banks become the latest accession to the growing account of banking institutions attractive to participate in the proposed blockchain-based payments system.
JPMorgan says added than 340 banks accept adumbrated absorption in applying to be allotment of the IIN. The activity which will action as a all-around cyberbanking ecosystem will focus on amount and transaction throughput abridgement in cross-border payments.
JPMorgan is additionally testing its stablecoin — JPM Coin, for deployment on the IIN. The bank’s blockchain payments account runs on Quorum — a decentralized balance belvedere based on the Ethereum blockchain.
The IIN is one of a growing account of blockchain payments platforms developed by banks. Back in June 2019, Fnality International appear its all-around remittance belvedere to be acclimated by a bunch of banks beyond the U.S., Japan, and Europe.
Wells Fargo additionally has its stablecoin activity for cross-border payments alleged Wells Fargo Digital Cash. Despite its plans, the coffer continues to advance a close anti-crypto stance, alike reportedly barring its customers from agreeable in cryptocurrency transactions.
Asian Banks Keen Blockchain-based Cross-Border Payments
The account of the bristles South Korean banks — Korea Development Bank (KDB), Shinhan Bank, Woori Bank, KEB Hana Bank, and NongHyup Bank (NH), swells the ranks of Asian banks adopting blockchain acquittal infrastructure.
As ahead appear by Bitcoinist, there are already 80 Japanese banking institutions active up to JPMorgan’s IIN. This amount puts Japan as accepting the accomplished allotment of banks from any distinct country on the project.
According to the Business Times of Singapore, Asian banks aggregate about 40% of the accepted participants of the IIN. Last week, Singapore-based Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) — the second-largest coffer in Southeast Asia, abutting the INN as well.
These developments acutely casting the approaching of all-embracing remittance as one bedeviled by blockchain technology. However, there is no bright adumbration of which project(s) will accretion a majority in the arising market. Blockchain startups like Ripple additionally accept to attempt with these cyberbanking consortia.
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