Around ten biggest world banks that are the members of the global bank consortium R3, the main aim of which is the development of their own private blockchain, have finished the process of work on the service KYC.

This is made to anticipate the monopoly of the biggest country banks – both state and commercial – on the market of blockchain technologies. In the beginning of this year Australian banks and financial institutions have forbidden any usage of Bitcoin accounts, without any explanations of this step.

Microsoft continues to unite various platforms that provide a possibility to create personal decentralized applications within their partner program BaaS (Blockchain-as-a-Service). This time to the cloud service Azure a platform Stratis was added