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UBS leads team of banks working on blockchain settlement system
August 24, 2016 by admin · Leave a Comment
By Jemima Kelly LONDON (Reuters) – Swiss bank UBS is leading a team of four of the world's biggest banks developing a system to enable financial markets to make payments and settle transactions quickly using blockchain technology. UBS has developed a “Utility Settlement Coin” (USC), which is a digital cash equivalent of each of the major currencies backed by central banks, such as the dollar or euro, rather than a decentralized new digital currency such as bitcoin. The USC would be convertible at parity with a…
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UBS leads team of banks working on blockchain settlement system