Very excited about this as well mate.
Will provide even further utility/demand for the token. Also we know Gilbert and the team have had discussions with Central Banks around digitising assets.
Quite keen for Money 20/20 - expecting an announcement on their Digital Asset plans.
These guys seem to be pulling out a new ace every week. So epic.
This really seems to be something bigger:
SIA PARTNERS WITH QUANT NETWORK TO EXPLORE INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS IN BLOCKCHAIN INTEROPERABILITY FOR BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
https://www.quant.network/blog/sia-partners-with-quant-network-to-explore-innovative-solutions-in-blockchain-interoperability-for-banks-and-financial-institutions/A few quotes:
"SIA, the leading European hi-tech company in the payment services and infrastructures sector, and Quant Network, a UK-based pioneering technology company, have signed a partnership agreement to explore blockchain interoperability and the creation of agnostic cross-platform applications and services for banks and financial institutions."
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"SIAchain is a private infrastructure leveraging on 570 European network nodes within SIAnet the fiber optic network with high-speed and low-latency stretching over 186,000 kilometres that supports financial institutions, corporates and public administration bodies in developing and implementing, in a secure, protected way, innovative applications based on blockchain technology."
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SIA is European leader in the design, creation and management of technology infrastructures and services for Financial Institutions, Central Banks, Corporates and the Public Sector, in the areas of payments, cards, network services and capital markets. SIA Group provides its services in 50 countries, (....)
In 2018, SIA managed 14 billion institutional services transactions, 7.2 billion card transactions, 3 billion payments, 51.7 billion financial transactions and carried 1,204 terabytes of data on the network.
The Group, which currently has over 3,400 employees, closed 2018 with revenues of 614.8 million.
Edit: Quoting Gilbert Verdian (Telegram):
"This is a game changer we've been working on. We're bringing blockchain interoperabiltiy to the 570 banks that SIA work with.
This is what Ripple with XRP, Stellar with XLM and partnering with IBM have been trying to do"