The State Bank of India will launch two blockchain production-ready beta solutions next month, ready for use to 27 major Indian banks of the ‘BankChain’ consortium. Government-owned State Bank of India (SBI) is India’s largest banking corporation with assets over $460 billion amid a foothold in just about every financial services sector in the country. As a public sector bank, the SBI took the lead to establish India’s first financial blockchain consortium called BankChain, wherein participating banks and technology companies research, develop and implement blockchain applications in the financial industry.…
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National Australia Bank, Citing Highly Flawed Data, Calls Bitcoin a Bubble
National Australia Bank looms over Melbourne’s citizenry like a dark, jagged cathedral of debt. Emma Lawson, Senior Currency Strategist for National Bank of Australia, has written a lengthy analysis of Bitcoin. Predictably, given her allegiances, she finds it to be an unsuitable alternative to AUD. Her (foregone) conclusion is ostensibly based on a laughably inaccurate data-point: “1723 registered businesses worldwide advertised as using Bitcoin (no doubt there are more in reality), [which] suggests there may be something in the idea that there is [sic] currently more people buying Bitcoin in…