Bangkok Bank has become the first Thai institution to join the R3 blockchain consortium. The bank is one of a number of financial institutions that have joined R3, which aims to create an open and interoperable distributed ledger for cross-border payments.
Bangkok Bank has become the first Thai institution to join the R3 blockchain consortium. Chartsiri Sophonpanich, President of Bangkok Bank said the company was "keen to learn, share and participate in the group."