{"id":434182,"date":"2022-02-16T10:18:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T08:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=434182"},"modified":"2022-02-16T10:19:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T08:19:20","slug":"absa-joins-blockchain-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/434182-absa-joins-blockchain-foundation.html","title":{"rendered":"Absa joins blockchain foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Absa has joined the Hyperledger Foundation to broaden its blockchain-related knowledge and expand its network in the distributed ledger community.<\/p>\n<p>The Hyperledger Foundation is an open global ecosystem for blockchain technologies hosted by the Linux Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The financial services industry is facing an increasingly competitive landscape driven primarily through the application of new technologies, such as distributed ledger,&#8221; said Michelle Anderson, head of strategy and digital partnerships for the Information Technology office at Absa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absa has become a member of Hyperledger Foundation to expand our knowledge and network in the distributed ledger community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We intend to broaden our understanding of the use of the technology in the financial services sector and leverage Hyperledger&#8217;s enterprise blockchain ecosystems and global open source collaboration to deliver on new propositions to meet our evolving customer needs,&#8221; Anderson added.<\/p>\n<p>The Hyperledger Foundation enables organisations to develop industry-specific applications, platforms, and hardware systems to support individual business transactions with enterprise-grade, open-source distributed ledger frameworks, libraries, and tools.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Absa, the foundation added eight other members:\u00a0Datachain, Global Shipping Business Network, Indicio, IoBuilders, Marketnode, MDxBlocks, PalmNFT Studio, and Zeeve.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation said that several new members are already developing and deploying a variety of Hyperledger technologies.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/432628-tymebank-launches-credit-card.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TymeBank launches credit card<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absa has joined the Hyperledger Foundation to expand its understanding of blockchain technology and its possible use in the financial services sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":430066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10106,44696],"tags":[2186,76630,69949,76632],"class_list":["post-434182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","category-cryptocurrency","tag-absa","tag-hyperledger-foundation","tag-linux-foundation","tag-michelle-anderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434186,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434182\/revisions\/434186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}