News
22 February 2017

ING and SocGen test blockchain technology on Mercuria oil trade

Region:
Middle East & Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe

ING and SocGen have tested their Easy Trading Connect distributed ledger platform to perform a live oil cargo trade between Mercuria and ChemChina. They say the transaction took just 25 minutes to complete - around three hours less than usual.

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