CORE MAGAZINE March 2018 | Page 36

Blockchain News UnionBank Will Help Visa Implement Its Blockchain-Based B2B Payment UnionBank Will Use Visa’s Blockchain-Based Payment System The Philippines News Agency has reported that five of the country’s banks will be teaming up to use Visa’s blockchain-based payment system. According to the local news agency, the Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) will help four other rural banks in utilizing Visa’s business-to-business (B2B) 36 Core Magazine Connect system. The banks, which have not been named, intend to make their payment processes more efficient by using this new payments technology. Although this type of payments infrastructure  has been tested out in other countries, the publicly-listed UnionBank happens to be the first bank in the Philippines to use B2B Connect. Henry Rhoel R. Aguda, Senior Executive