Visa Invites Lenders to Test Blockchain Payment System
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Visa Invites Lenders to Test Blockchain Payment System

THELOGICALINDIAN - American bunch banking casework association Visa is agreeable lenders to analysis its interbank alteration arrangement that sends money over a blockchain

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Visa’s New Blockchain Project

Hendrik Kleinsmiede, co-founder of Visa’s addition hub, Visa Visa Europe CollabEurope Collab, said in the advertisement that the activity is advised to “reduce the abrasion of calm and cross-border transfers amid banks.” Aiming to abolish acclaim risk, cut costs, acceleration up adjustment times and more, Visa’s blockchain affairs is actuality created to accelerate money amid banks, both domestically and internationally.

Kleinsmiede additionally said that the aim is for Visa’s “proof of concept” to be completed aural 100 days, the Financial Times reported. By that time, he accepted to accept begin banks accommodating to accelerate money amid anniversary added application the blockchain technology.

Partnership with BTL Group

For this affidavit of concept, Visa has teamed up with agenda payments startup BTL Group. The affiliation originated 18 months ago to acclimate blockchain technology for Visa’s interbank payments.

Kleinsmiede said:

BTL’s capital product, Interbit, is a multi-industry belvedere with acquiescence congenital that was advised to accomplish acute affairs and added allowances of blockchains attainable to banking institutions. Kleinsmiede accepted that the interbank adjustment platform Interbit is actuality acclimated in the Visa collaboration.

Smart Contracts

This project uses acute affairs to handle abundant of the authoritative and acquiescence requirements of interbank transfers. BTLUsing the new technology, they plan to accomplish cross-border transfers simultaneous, abate the counterparty risk.

The adjustment ensures candor and aegis ahead bare in interbank transfers. BTL architect Guy Halford-Thomson said of the technology, “Through the use of acute affairs and blockchains I accept we can actualize a fast, adjustable and bargain interbank acquittal and adjustment service, with anchored bounded compliance.”

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Images address of Visa, BTL, Valeri Potapova / Shutterstock.com.