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SIX chose Corda Enterprise because the technology was designed for a highly regulated space, and the flourishing open-source Corda ecosystem.

There are multiple possibilities for distributed ledger technology. This introductory article compares Corda, Hyperledger Fabric, Quorum, Ethereum and Bitcoin, relative to them fighting it out in a battle to determine what would be best suited to the use case of processing distributed transactions in the insurance domain. The considerations include data privacy, scalability and ease of programming.

Blockchain consortium R3's trade finance platform Marco Polo has completed its first real transactions. Marco Polo, which is built on R3 enterprise blockchain platform Corda, successfully facilitated a trade between Germany and China, involving two German firms.

Blockchain service firm Chainstack recently published a report about developer activity on six major enterprise blockchains, showing that Fabric has overtaken Corda in regard to dev activity on its repository. A chart included in the report shows that Fabric developer activity exceeded Corda's in Q4 2019.

Built on R3's open-source blockchain platform Corda, Marco Polo has hosted the largest global trade finance trial that involved over 70 organizations from 25 countries including financial giants like Japanese SBI Holdings,

CULedger, a blockchain consortium and credit union service organization, has chosen enterprise software firm R3's Corda blockchain to underpin its forthcoming cross-border payments product.

R3 published a short primer on how Regulated Liability Network (RLN) tokens would work within the structure of the R3 digital currency sandbox. It first describes the proposed technical architecture of the RLN along with where it sits within the existing sandbox. It then look into the specifics of how issuance and payment operations would work were RLN tokens to be issued in a Corda environment.

Insurtech start-up B3i has launched its first product on R3's Corda platform, v1.0 of its Property Catastrophe Excess of Loss Reinsurance product. The new Cat XoL product will allowing insurers, brokers and reinsurers to "interact, negotiate and place risk more securely and efficiently."

This 'lost payments' problem was the problem we set out to solve when we built the Corda Settler. And I was reminded about this when I overheard some colleagues discussing it the other day. One of them wondered why we don't include the recipient of a payment in the set of parties that must agree that a payment has actually been made. Isn't that kinda a bit of an oversight?!

Switzerland's licensed crypto-first bank SEBA is partnering with Corda-based Digital Asset Shared Ledger (DASL) to let the bank offer asset securitization services on Corda's public network. It will complement SEBA's Custody, Asset Management and Trading product. SEBA will create a wallet for onboarded custody customers, issue digital securities and distribute them to wealth management and other investor networks.

The South African Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group (IFWG) launched 'Project Khokha 2' to explore the use of tokenised money, blockchains and wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) in South Africa. The CBDC will use R3's Corda enterprise blockchain, and the settlement token and debenture will use a variant of Cosmos blockchain interoperability solution. Accenture will be responsible for tokenizing the wholesale CBDC on Corda. Block Markets Africa will help with distributed ledger technology, tokenizing the bonds and the wholesale payment token using its custom Cosmos-based solution. And Deloitte will document the insights. Other participants in the trials will include commercial banks Absa, FirstRand, Investec, Nedbank, and Standard Bank, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), and Strate, South Africa's central securities depository.

According to the Italian Banking Association (ABI) about 100 Italian banks are operating on the country's Spunta banking blockchain network, built on R3's Corda. Spunta is a project created by ABI Labs, which began trialing interbank transfers on Corda as early as 2018.

Fnality and HQLAX demonstrated together with Banco Santander, Goldman Sachs and UBS, the first cross-chain repo swap pilot across Corda and Enterprise Ethereum, paving the way for the settlement of intraday transactions. This is part of Fnality's mission to provide its participants with a single pool of liquidity to facilitate payments (P), cross-currency payments (PvP) and delivery versus payment (DvP) use cases. This pilot also proves interoperability across the Fnality Payment System and HQLAX's Digital Collateral Registry, bridging Corda and Enterprise Ethereum. Fnality was founded to create a network of decentralised financial market Infrastructures (dFMIs) to deliver the means of payment-on-chain in wholesale banking markets, based on wholesale stablecoins backed by central bank reserves. The HQLAᵡ operating model leverages distributed ledger technology to enable atomic delivery verses delivery (DvD) for baskets of securities residing at multiple custodians.

R3 has rolled out a public beta of its Corda distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform that is capable of interoperating with other blockchain networks. Also, in partnership with Adhara, R3 has launched a Hyperledger Foundation Lab - Harmonia - to speed the development of interoperability protocols for regulated financial institutions, and  achieve true atomic settlement across blockchain networks.

Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has announced it will pilot R3's Marco Polo blockchain network for trade finance.

Finastra has signed three global banks on its Corda Enterprise-based Fusion LenderComm platform as part of a coordinated campaign.

Dubai-based fintech company Wethaq has entered into a strategic partnership with enterprise software firm R3, in order to create a platform for issuing and trading sukuk securities based on R3's Corda offering.

Bank of America has joined Marco Polo, a consortium working to bring efficiencies to international trade using blockchain technology. Founded by R3 and TradeIX, Marco Polo is built on R3's Corda blockchain platform. "

The Sveriges Riksbank announced the next phase of its R3 Corda-based distributed ledger technology-based e-krona pilot. This phase will move on from having only simulated participants, to involving external actors (Handelsbanken and TietoEVRY. ) as participants in the test environment, making it possible for the Riksbank to evaluate the integration between the participants' existing systems and the technical platform for the e-krona pilot. The Riksbank will, for instance, be testing an integration of the payment flows developed during the first year of the pilot with the participants' internal systems.

The ASEAN Financial Innovation Network (AFIN), a not-for-profit entity jointly formed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the ASEAN Bankers Association, has partnered with R3 to enable banks and FinTechs to build and test central bank digital currency (CBDC) applications. R3 Sandbox for Digital Currencies is underpinned by Corda, and provides an environment for central banks, commercial banks, exchanges, payment providers, FinTechs and more to collaborate and evaluate CBDC use cases, as well as to learn, transact, and test roll-out strategies. https://www.r3.com/digital-currency-sandbox/