I think Circle attempted a partnership with one of the banking groups { Barclays }
... but then Barclays dumped them to join forces
with the R3 circle jerkers. They are now busy developing the perfect system to track all transactions on this planet, by introducing
permissioned private Blockchains. Some time this year, or early 2017.. you will see the launch of these systems to milk more money from
their customers and also to track all their transactions. Bitcoin or public Blockchains will be used by the people who know better.