Akamai and MUFG Announce Joint Venture for Blockchain-Based Online Payment Network
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (NYSE: MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups, today announced an expansion of their relationship through the establishment of a joint venture, the Global Open Network, Inc. (GO-NET) and their plans to offer a new blockchain-based online payment network enabling next-generation transaction security, scale and responsiveness. GO-NET is the result of more than three years of...