For banking clients
IBM is taking its banking clients a step closer to cryptocurrency.

Six international banks have signed letters of intent to issue stablecoins, or tokens backed by fiat currency, on World Wire, an IBM payment network that uses the Stellar public blockchain.
The network promises to let regulated institutions move value across borders -- remittances or foreign exchange -- more quickly and cheaply than the legacy corresponding banking system.
So far three of the banks have been identified -- Philippines-based RCBC, Brazil's Banco Bradesco, and Bank Busan of South Korea -- the rest, which are soon to be named, will offer digital versions of euros and Indonesian rupiah, "pending regulatory approvals and other reviews", IBM said.
The network went live Monday, although while the banks await their regulators' blessings, the one stablecoin running on World Wire at the moment is a previously announced US dollar-backed token created by Stronghold, a startup based in San Francisco.
Jesse Lund, IBM’s head of blockchain for financial services said that while Stronghold’s USD-backed coin serves as an on-ramp for greenbacks, there are as yet no pay-in/pay-out locations in the US.
IBM has received “a favourable verbal response” from US regulators, claims Lund.
 
 
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