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R3 Corda + Solana = Ethereum Killer?
A Future of Finance interview with Richard Brown, Chief Executive of R3 Labs The pivot by R3 from private to public blockchains through its partnership with Solana might be one of those apparently arcane technical deals - like IBM and Microsoft or Apple and ARM - that changes everything. It allies regulated, institutional money with an open blockchain protocol that can compete with existing equity and debt marketplaces on volume, speed and price, while still delivering on
Nov 28, 2025


Exploring convergence opportunities across private and public ecosystems
A Future of Finance interview with Richard Brown, Chief Technology and Product Officer at R3. R3 celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Richard G. Brown, R3’s Chief Technology and Product Officer, speaks to Bob Currie about the drivers for Corda’s design, how these are changing, and how far the company has fulfilled the targets that it envisaged at formation. The discussion explores the potential for convergence of private and public blockchain ecosystems, thereby pot
May 1, 2025


R3’s Corda leads tokenised RWA market with over $10 billion in on-chain assets and unrivalled industry adoption
* R3’s Corda dominates the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market, with over $10 billion in on-chain assets – setting the standard for industry adoption * Trusted by the world’s leading banks, Corda represents the largest ecosystem of live RWA networks, processing over 1 million transactions each day * Client momentum across R3’s digital products suite, supported by regulatory and industry tailwinds, is driving the highest number of live applications in production globally
Feb 16, 2025


Quant’s experience developing connectivity and smart contracts will prove invaluable to the UK RLN
“Quant’s experience developing connectivity and smart contracts will prove invaluable to the UK RLN.” Jana Mackintosh Managing Director, Payment Innovation and Resilience at UK Finance We’re proud to announce that – together with R3, the enterprise distributed ledger technology and services firm – we have been selected to produce the technology prototype for the experimentation phase of the UK’s Regulated Liability Network , led by UK Finance and supported by EY. The UK RL
Apr 17, 2024


What We Know and Do Not Know About CBDCs (So Far)
A Future of Finance interview with Alisa DiCaprio, Chief Economist at R3. A year and a half may have elapsed since the last central bank...
Dec 18, 2023


Interoperating token networks: What they are and how to get there
Future of Finance: There is no shortage of individual blockchain and tokenisation projects in repo, swaps, payments and securities. Why have they yet to achieve scale? Lima: The reason experiments are failing to scale is because we are pursuing siloed initiatives that work in isolation but are not integrated with each other. Within the R3 eco-system alone we have for example HQLAx digitising collateral, Finteum doing intraday FX swaps and SSImple digitising Standing Settlemen
Nov 4, 2023


How R3 gets blockchain projects done
A Future of Finance interview with Co-founders of R3, Chief Technology Officer Richard Brown and Chief Strategy Officer Todd Mcdonald. R3 first came to public attention in 2015 when a group of major financial institutions and technology vendors backed the company to work out how blockchain technologies could be applied to regulated financial markets. More than six years on, R3 is the established enterprise software company behind a host of live and soon-to-be-live blockchai
Oct 16, 2023


R3 doubles down on interoperability, high availability, and scalability reinforced by the next generation of Corda
Major platform update architected to deliver high availability, scalability, and secure interoperability with other enterprise DLT platforms R3 launches Hyperledger Lab, Harmonia, to support industry-wide collaboration on interoperability LONDON/NEW YORK: R3 , the enterprise distributed ledger technology (DLT) and services firm, today announced the next generation of its flagship platform Corda at its hosted event in New York. The updated version has been designed for glob
Jul 24, 2023


Introducing Harmonia, a Hyperledger Lab: Unlocking Interoperability
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) has gained significant traction in recent years in the financial sector, where its promise of data consistency, security, and shared business logic is the key to resolving long-standing market-level inefficiencies. However, as the adoption of blockchain networks continues to expand, a pressing challenge has emerged: the ability for these new solutions to seamlessly communicate and transact with one another, in a way that complies with the u
Jul 24, 2023


A thousand dApps will bloom on the solid foundations of CBDCs
A Future of Finance interview with Ricardo Correia, Head of Digital Currencies at R3. The decision by regulators to bring bank-issued...
Feb 6, 2023


The financial market infrastructure of the future will look like this
A Future of Finance interview with Angie Walker, Global Head of Capital Markets Business Development at R3. One of the signal...
Mar 30, 2022


How traditional stock exchanges can reinvent themselves for the digital age
A Future of Finance interview with Angie Walker, Global Head of Capital Markets Business Development at R3. Traditional stock exchanges...
Feb 16, 2022


The future of post-trade financial market infrastructures is visible now
A Future of Finance interview with Goncalo Lima, Capital Markets Ecosystem Lead at R3. Post-trade was an early target of the blockchain...
Feb 15, 2022
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