SBI Holdings and R3 have announced that both companies have agreed on establishing a joint venture with its operations in Japan. SBI Holdings has contributed 60% of the capital for the venture whereas R3 has provided the other 40%. The announcement by both companies also provided the following information about the new venture.
Company Name: SBI R3 Japan Co., Ltd.Business: Provision of DLT platform Corda, and other related businessAddress: Izumi Garden Tower, 1-6- 1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 106-6019, JapanRepresentative: Mamoru FujimotoEstablishment: January 2019Capital: JPY 500 million
SBI Holdings Already the Largest Outside Shareholder of R3
- support provision and introduction of the Corda license
- arrange schemes for its actual use
- promote collaboration with overseas offices of R3 and other Corda partners.
- develop its businesses in the Eastern Asian Region
SWIFT Announces Trial of DLT integration using R3’s Corda
At the moment of writing this, SWIFT has announced a proof-of-concept (PoC) to trial its gpi link integrated with R3’s Corda platform. The PoC will use the R3 platform to authorize payments from banks via SWIFT’s gpi Link. The PoC will be extended to support other Distributed Ledger Technologies and e-commerce trade platforms.
XRP Spikes By 9%
News of SWIFT using R3’s Corda platform has been attributed to XRP’s sudden gain in value of 9%. This is due to the fact that R3’s Corda has the capability of using XRP to facilitate global payments. Richard Gendal Brown, Chief Technology Officer at R3 explained in December of last year, how the digital asset will work on the Corda Settler:
The deployment of the Corda Settler and its support for XRP as the first settlement mechanism is an important step in showing how the powerful ecosystems cultivated by two of the of the world’s most influential crypto and blockchain communities can work together.
While the Settler will be open to all forms of crypto and traditional assets, this demonstration with XRP is the next logical step in showing how widespread acceptance and use of digital assets to transfer value and make payments can be achieved.
Corda Settler is an open source CorDapp that allows payment obligations arising on the Corda Network to be settled via any parallel rail supporting cryptocurrencies or other crypto assets.
What are your thoughts on SBI Holdings announcing a joint venture with R3 while SWIFT intends to use Corda for its gpi Link payment solution? Do you think SWIFT will use XRP through the Corda Settler? Please let us know in the comment section below.
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