{"id":1081,"date":"2016-07-05T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.holytransaction.com\/2016\/07\/russian-banks-work-on-a-blockchain-unit.html"},"modified":"2020-11-22T17:05:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T15:05:22","slug":"russian-banks-work-on-a-blockchain-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/russian-banks-work-on-a-blockchain-unit.html","title":{"rendered":"Russian Banks work on a Blockchain Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-C4h_ODIMmTw\/VtRoe7M53UI\/AAAAAAAAAPE\/LPybpNPDwEAiC4Ui_jkO7_HL1ZUWQq4sQCKgB\/s1600\/Russian%2BCentral%2BBank%2Bopens%2Bto%2BBlockchain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-C4h_ODIMmTw\/VtRoe7M53UI\/AAAAAAAAAPE\/LPybpNPDwEAiC4Ui_jkO7_HL1ZUWQq4sQCKgB\/s400\/Russian%2BCentral%2BBank%2Bopens%2Bto%2BBlockchain.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian Banks work on a Blockchain Unit<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A few days ago <b>Russian Banks and public institutions<\/b> revealed that they will create a unit that aims at studying blockchain applications.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Announced on July 1st, this private consortium includes QIWI, <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.binbank.ru\/\">B&amp;N Bank<\/a>, Khanty-Mansiysk Otkritie Bank, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tinkoff.ru\/eng\/\">Tinkoff Bank<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdmbank.com\/\">MDM Bank<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accenture.com\/ru-ru\/\">Accenture<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project was announced during the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/ibcongress.ru\/en\/\">25th International Financial Congress<\/a> in St. Petersburg, hosted by the Russian Central Bank.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This unit focuses on the development of <i>\u201cblockchain proofs-of-concept, work on joint research and policy outreach, and the creation of technology standards\u201d.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The idea for this project came when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/russian-payments-firm-qiwi-wants-launch-r3cev\/\">QIWI<\/a> revealed its hope for creating the so-called \u201cRussia\u2019s R3CEV\u201d, a group of financial services focused on the distributed ledger.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>CEO Sergey Solonin<\/b> explained:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>&#8220;I\u2019m convinced that the Consortium, which brought together the Russia\u2019s largest financial company, is able to become an effective platform for multilateral cooperation in exploration, launching innovations and their implementations in financial services.&#8221;<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bank of Russia works on the Blockchain<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bank of Russia is not new to an involvement with the Blockchain, in fact,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A few months ago Olga Skorobogatova of Bank of Russia explained that<a href=\"https:\/\/holytransaction.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-bank-of-russia-is-working-on.html\"> \u201cthe development of modern financial markets is inseparable from the development of financial technology<\/a>\u201d, when the bank revealed his purpose to start studying the distributed ledger back in February 2016.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Universal Wallet<\/h3>\n<div style=\"clear: both; 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