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Microsoft strikes partnership with banks on blockchain tech

It teams up with R3, a consortium of 43 financial institutions; first commercial deployments of blockchain are seen going live in about a year

Published Tue, Apr 5, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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MICROSOFT Inc has pulled ahead of Alphabet Inc's Google, International Business Machines Corp (IBM), and Amazon.com Inc in the race for supremacy in operating other companies' blockchains.

Microsoft and R3, a consortium of 43 financial institutions, have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate the use of the blockchain technologies.

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