This keeps getting better.
"Nine of world's biggest banks join to form blockchain partnership"http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/15/us-banks-blockchain-idUSKCN0RF24M20150915"Rutter said the initial focus would be to agree on an underlying architecture, but it had not yet been decided whether that would be underpinned by bitcoin's blockchain or another one, such as one being built by Ethereum, which offers more features than the original bitcoin technology."
Die hard bitcoiners would be mad not to hedge their bets.