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KB Kookmin Bank To Launch Dollar Payments on JPMorgan Kinexys
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KB Kookmin Bank, South Korea's largest lender, will launch USD cross-border payments on JPMorgan's Kinexys blockchain network in August, initially covering 10 countries including the US, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and UAE with near-instant settlement linked to SWIFT.
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A top-28 Asia-Pacific bank just moved its dollar payments onto blockchain infrastructure, not as a pilot but as a production service to 10 countries in August. If you build cross-border payment tools, treasury platforms or FX settlement for corporates, you now compete against a JPMorgan-backed network with a $550bn lender already on it.
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