R3 (company)

R3 (R3CEV LLC) is a distributed database technology company.[1][2] It leads a consortium of more than 70[3] of the world biggest financial institutions in research and development of blockchain usage in the financial system. It is headquartered in New York City. It was founded in 2014 by David Rutter. The current CTO is Richard G Brown.

Corda

The consortium's joint efforts have created an open-source distributed ledger platform called Corda[4] especially geared towards the financial world as it handles more complex transactions and restricts access to transaction data. Although it is inspired by blockchain databases, and is expected to have many of the benefits of blockchains, it is not a blockchain.[4]

The aim of Corda is to provide a platform with common services to ensure that any services built on top are compatible between the network participants, whilst still fostering innovation and faster time to market as the underlying infrastructure would be accepted and understood by at least the founding firms.

"If we have one platform with lots of products on top, then we get something that's more like the internet, where we still get innovation but we can still communicate with each other."[3] - David Rutter

Corda's code will be contributed to the Hyperledger project on November 30th, 2016. Hyperledger is a cross-industry project led by the non-profit Linux Foundation to advance blockchain technology by coming up with common standards.

History

The consortium started on September 15, 2015 with nine financial companies:[5][6][7][8] Barclays, BBVA, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan,[9] Royal Bank of Scotland, State Street, and UBS.

On September 29, 2015 an additional 13 financial companies joined:[10] Bank of America, BNY Mellon, Citi, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Morgan Stanley, National Australia Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken,[11] Société Générale, and Toronto-Dominion Bank. Financial Times reporter Kadhim Shubber wrote that the new additions are "a sign the industry is gathering behind R3 in one potential implementation of the distributed ledger technology behind the currency bitcoin."[12]

On October 28, 2015 an additional three financial companies joined:[13] Mizuho Bank, Nordea, and UniCredit.

On November 19, 2015 an additional five financial companies joined :[14] BNP Paribas, Wells Fargo, ING, Macquarie Group and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

On December 17, 2015, an additional 12 financial companies joined :[15] BMO Financial Group, Danske Bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, Natixis, Nomura, Northern Trust, OP Financial Group, Banco Santander, Scotiabank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, U.S. Bancorp and Westpac Banking Corporation.

As of April 25, 2016, three additional financial companies had joined:[16] SBI Holdings of Japan, Hana Financial of South Korea, and Bank Itau of Brazil.

Toyota Financial Services joined in June[17] and MetLife joined in August 2016.

On March 3, 2016, R3 announced that it had completed a trial involving 40 banks held in the last two weeks of February, testing the use of blockchain solutions offered by Eris Industries, IBM, Intel and Chain to facilitate the trading of debt instruments. This was a follow-on to an 11-bank trial conducted earlier in January which used Ethereum hosted on Microsoft Azure.[18]

In November 2016, Goldman Sachs, Santander and Morgan Stanley each withdrew from the consortium.[19][20][21]

References

  1. ↑ Stan Higgins (July 21, 2015). "Inside R3CEV's Plot to Bring Distributed Ledgers to Wall Street". CoinDesk.
  2. ↑ Nathaniel Popper (August 28, 2015). "Bitcoin Technology Piques Interest on Wall St.". The New York Times.
  3. 1 2 Kelly, Jemima. "Exclusive: Blockchain platform developed by banks to be open-source". Reuters UK. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  4. 1 2 "Introducing R3 Corda: A Distributed Ledger Designed for Financial Services". R3. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  5. ↑ Oscar Williams-Grut (September 15, 2015). "JPMorgan, Barclays & others join R3 on blockchain project". Business Insider.
  6. ↑ Jemima Kelly (September 15, 2015). "Nine of world's biggest banks join to form blockchain partnership". Reuters.
  7. ↑ Paul Vigna (September 15, 2015). "BitBeat: Wall Street, City Banks Join Blockchain-Focused Consortium". The Wall Street Journal.
  8. ↑ Ian Allison (September 16, 2015). "Blockchain expert Tim Swanson talks about R3 partnership of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, Barclays et al". International Business Times.
  9. ↑ Pete Rizzo (September 18, 2015). "JPMorgan CEO Issues Cautious Remarks on Blockchain Tech". CoinDesk.
  10. ↑ Jessie Willms (September 29, 2015). "R3 Blockchain Development Initiative Grows to 22 Banks Worldwide". Bitcoin Magazine.
  11. ↑ Pete Rizzo (September 30, 2015). "SEB: Blockchain Could Make Banks 'Radically More Efficient'". CoinDesk.
  12. ↑ Kadhim Shubber (September 29, 2015). "Blockchain initiative pulls in another 13 banks". Financial Times. The addition of the banks, which also include HSBC, BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank and seven others, is a sign the industry is gathering behind R3 in one potential implementation of the distributed ledger technology behind the currency bitcoin.
  13. ↑ Jemima Kelly (October 28, 2015). "Three banks join R3 blockchain consortium taking total to 25". Reuters.
  14. ↑ Jemima Kelly (November 19, 2015). "R3 blockchain group adds 5 banks, brings in technology heavyweights". Reuters.
  15. ↑ "R3's distributed ledger initiative grows to 42 bank members and looks to extend reach to the broader financial services community" (PDF). R3 (company).
  16. ↑ "Brazil's Bank Itaú Joins R3 Blockchain Consortium - CoinDesk". CoinDesk. 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
  17. ↑ "Toyota Financial Services joins R3 distributed ledger consortium". International Business Times. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  18. ↑ Stan Higgins (March 3, 2016). "40 Banks Trial Commercial Paper Trading in Latest R3 Blockchain Test". CoinDesk. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
  19. ↑ http://www.coindesk.com/goldman-sachs-leaves-r3cev/
  20. ↑ http://www.coindesk.com/santander-drops-out-r3-blockchain-consortium/
  21. ↑ http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2016/11/22/morgan-stanley-plans-to-drop-out-of-r3-blockchain-group/

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