GettyAsk nearly any leading banker or financial executive to go on the record about blockchain, and you are liable to hear crickets. It’s ironic because, behind the scenes, few industries are eagerly working on blockchain projects as feverishly as financial services firms are. Bank of America, for example, has filed nearly 60 blockchain patents. RBC has conducted 8 live pilots, and Bank of America has filed the most blockchain patents of any company in the industry. “You already have tangible benefits but this still is not the end state,” says ING’s program director of distributed ledger technology Mariana Gomez de la Villa of a recent ING pilot.

Source: Forbes April 16, 2019 09:56 UTC