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R3 assembles expert technology team

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Financial innovation firm R3 announced the team tasked with managing the design and delivery of advanced distributed ledger technologies to global financial markets in partnership with its consortium of member banks.
The R3 collaborative model is the best way to quickly, efficiently and cost effectively deliver these new technologies to global financial markets.
The team brings together a unique set of expertise in electronic financial markets, distributed ledgers and blockchain technologies.
In his fifteen-year career at IBM he specialized in the application of new technology in banking and financial markets.
Ian Grigg, Architecture Consultant: Ian is a financial cryptographer with 20 years experience building secure ledger systems for the internet.

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