Microsoft Partners Bank of America on Blockchain to “Transform” Trade Finance

Technology giant Microsoft and financial institution Bank of America Merill Lynch have announced a collaboration with the aim to “fuel transformation of trade finance transacting”, with blockchain technology. In an announcement at the annual SWIFT-organized Sibos conference, Microsoft and Bank of America Merrill Lynch underlined their collaborative aim to usher in blockchain technology to transform […]

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Ethereum’s Solidity Now Available in Microsoft Visual Studio

Recently, Consensys pushed out a press release announcing the support of Ethereum’s high-level programming language, Solidity, within Microsoft’s Visual Studio. Solidity will be supported within Visual Studio as a Decentralized Application project type. Readers will remember other Consensys/ Azure integrations from the not so distant past. Concensys, as you will remember, is part of the […]

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Microsoft Announces Blockchain Partnership with R3

The New York-based private banking blockchain consortium led by R3 has now added a new “strategic’ partner, in global software giant Microsoft. In a new announcement made today, Microsoft is now in a partnership with R3CEV, a consortium of the leading banking institutions of the world that is looking to develop real-world blockchain solutions for […]

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An Early Blockchain Experiment by Global Banks Is Revealed

Blockchain startup R3 has revealed the completion of a new test that involved a total of 11 banks connected to a peer-to-peer decentralized distributed ledger. The experiment is likely to figure among the earliest examples of multiple banks using a distributed ledger to exchange value, successfully. In a press release today, R3 co-founder Todd McDonald […]

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Microsoft Adds Factom & CoinPrism as Partners to Its Blockchain Platform

Microsoft’s Azure blockchain and its blockchain-as-a-service endeavor is now adding three new partners to its blockchain-toolkit platform, with one of them even providing a Bitcoin data service. Soon after launching its blockchain-based service for customers of its cloud platform Azure last month, Microsoft has been ramping up its partners who will serve as collaborators and service providers. Last week, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Ripple, the interledger protocol to its blockchain toolkit. In a new blog post by Marley Gray, Director of Technology Strategy for Financial Services at Microsoft, he revealed three new members that will join Microsoft’s blockchain […]

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Microsoft Looks to Expand Blockchain-Based Toolkit with Ripple Integration

Fresh from launching its Ethereum-powered blockchain platform for customers of its cloud platform Azure, Microsoft has revealed it intends to add Ripple, an interledger protocol to its blockchain-based toolkit. Microsoft originally made the announcement to offer an Ethereum-blockchain solution for its customers after striking a partnership with ConsenSys toward the end of October. The objective was simple. Collaborate with the Brooklyn-based startup to grant Microsoft’s enterprise users the necessary tools to use the Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS). The applications would allow Azure customers to experiment with blockchain in a sandbox, without any substantial costs or crypto expertise. At the time, two […]

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