A Blockchain lab is scheduled to launch in the UK next month as a result of Innovate Finance teaming up with Hartree Centre to explore the opportunities offered by blockchain technology.
Innovate Finance is an independent membership association started in August 2014 to develop the global financial technology sector and has more than 100 members including Barclays, HSBC, Silicon Valley Bank, Nutmeg, Zopa, Monitise, Transferwise, Azimo, Syndicate Room, Ratesetter, Prophis Technologies, and GoCoin.
Hartree Centre is a data analytics research facility that has received 37.5 million GBP in seed funding from the UK government. Founded in 2012, it offers new opportunities for problem solving, forecasting and analysis using a high-performance computing. Moreover, Hartree Centre also works side-by-side with 24 researchers from IBM at the Sci-Tech Daresbury to develop new tools, algorithms and approaches to Big Data.
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