The Italian Banking Association is now testing a blockchain interbank solution based on blockchain consortium R3's open-source distributed ledger platform Corda, fintech news outlet FinExtra reports on Wednesday, Feb. 13.
The ABI states that the platform has been developed together with its technical partners - R3, Japanese IT firm NTT Data and Italian ICT company Sia.
The project, dubbed "Spunta," is reportedly now being tested by 18 banks that represent 78 percent of the Italian banking sector by number of employees.
As Cointelegraph previously reported, the blockchain-powered interbank system by the ABI successfully passed the initial phase of testing in October 2018, with the participation of 14 local banks.
According to the association, the project is now in its pre-production phase and it will be launched for a focus group after a number of initial tests.
At the same time, the ABI and its partners are developing additional updates that will be tested by pilot banks, reconstructing the production processes of the whole Italian banking sector, the association notes.
The Italian parliament has recently passed a bill that defines distributed ledger technologies and blockchain, as well as the technical criteria that smart contracts will have to comply with in order to have legal validity.
Maria Laura Mantovani, a member of the Italian Parliament, told Cointelegraph Italy that a favorable use case for blockchain is its application in online voting.
In late 2018, German banking and financial services company Commerzbank, French corporate and investment bank Natixis and Dutch financial services firm Rabobank completed a live commercial paper transaction based on this blockchain platform.
More recently, Japanese financial services company SBI Holdings officially announced a joint agreement with R3 to expand their business in Asia..
Italian Banking Association Further Tests Interbank Blockchain System Powered by R3 Corda
gepubliceerd op Feb 13, 2019
by Cointele | gepubliceerd op Coinage
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