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Accenture Introduces Blockchain Procurement Solution

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Accenture has a blockchain solution that just went live, according to a press release. Keeping track of everything is complicated, and onboarding new clients involves a lot of data collection. Given this, Accenture Procurement asked our internal IT and Accenture Technology blockchain organizations for a solution.”.

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Wells Fargo Invests $5M In Blockchain Analysis Startup Elliptic

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Wells Fargo Strategic Capital (WFSC) is backing the London-based blockchain analysis firm Elliptic with a $5 million investment, bringing the startup’s Series B round to $28 million, Elliptic announced in a press release on Thursday (Feb. WFSC joins existing investors SBI Group and Santander InnoVentures.

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Real Time Heats Up In B2B, While Blockchain Gains Traction

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Plus, blockchain makes new inroads in the B2B arena. As Canada gears up to launch its real-time payments system, the Real-Time Rail (RTR), Payments Canada , the entity at the head of the initiative, has announced that Mastercard -owned Vocalink has been chosen as the clearing and settlement solution provider for the new payment rail.

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DMG Blockchain Targets Cannabis Supply Chain Traceability

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Blockchain company DMG Blockchain Solutions is rolling out a new supply chain management solution designed for the legal cannabis market. “The emerging cannabis industry demands product management solutions and blockchain is the most logical choice,” said DMG CEO Dan Reitzik in a statement.

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Bitcoin Daily: American Express Ventures Invests In FalconX; Malta's Banks Skeptical Of Blockchain

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“We’re seeing growing interest from traditional asset managers who are adding cryptocurrencies as an inflationary hedge, catalyzed by recent macro-economic policies,” said Raghu Yarlagadda, FalconX CEO and co-founder, in the release. Meanwhile, banks in Malta are skeptical of jumping on the blockchain bandwagon, according to Cointelegraph.

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South Korea Examines Blockchain For Shipping

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Blockchain has been steadily making inroads in the B2B realm as a way to help boost supply chain transparency and efficiencies. To that end, in South Korea, a number of government ministries are looking into blockchain, eyeing the potential boost distributed ledger technology can give to marine logistics.

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Facebook Wants Engineers And Researchers For Blockchain Team

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Social media giant Facebook is looking to grow its blockchain team, according to a report. The company posted on its careers page that it’s looking for data engineers and scientists, software engineers and a product marketing lead for its blockchain team. Do you like working with data?