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Title: [2016-09-01] Visa eyes new link in blockchain payments
Post by: elyas772 on September 01, 2016, 07:19:15 AM

Visa will take its first step towards disrupting the market for payments between banks on Thursday by inviting lenders to test a system for sending money over blockchain, the technology underpinning bitcoin.

The credit card company, which has been investigating blockchain’s potential for 18 months, has teamed up with BTL Group, a digital payments start-up, to adapt its technology for processing interbank payments.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/483e315e-6fa6-11e6-a0c9-1365ce54b926.html#axzz4Iz983k7N