It is really great news for the industry. I believe banks who were thinking blockchain technology rigidly, will be cold now and welcome the tech very friendly. And I am expecting a great bump up in the banking channel in coming days.
No my friend, you do not want any Blockchain based patent to be awarded to any Banks. They want this for all the wrong reasons
and they will use this to destroy all other cross border payment systems that use the Blockchain. This is just another form of an
attack on Bitcoin and Blockchain based technologies. Luckily for us, Bitcoin is decentralized and virtually unstoppable or they
would have laid claim on all payments with Bitcoin, but they know it will fail, so they are targeting use cases that can be regulated.