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Kathryn Ashton
Kathryn Ashton

Using blockchain to combat counterfeiting in manufacturing

May 6, 2021 Product authenticity plays a huge role in assuring consumer confidence for B2B and B2C businesses. Whether it’s COVID-19 vaccines, industrial goods, car parts or fair-trade chocolate, today consumers want assurance that the product they’ve purchased is genuine. Correspondingly, for manufacturers...

Andy Schmidt
Andy Schmidt

CGI-sponsored GTNews survey reveals major challenge for corporate banks—declining client satisfaction (part 2)

February 27, 2020 This CGI blog post explores how technology can address declining corporate client satisfaction in banking.

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Centralized vs. blockchain: A head-to-head comparison of storage requirements

April 22, 2019 In an earlier blog post, we addressed blockchain energy dependency. This time we take a look at blockchain storage requirements. Indeed, blockchain’s distributed data structure results in a significantly higher storage demand compared to traditional centralized databases. However, central systems...

As home to the world’s largest blockchain hackathon, the City of Groningen sought to understand how blockchain might be relevant to its debt relief ecosystem. Groningen and the Groningse Kredietbank (GKB) partnered with CGI to help refine this idea and...

October 16, 2017 Proof of concept establishes seamless interoperability between CGI Trade360 platform, a trade finance platform used by banks in 90+ countries worldwide, and Skuchain's blockchain-based Brackets platform for smart contracts

September 27, 2016 CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A) today announced it is the first commercial enterprise to implement the Ripple Validator Node. Ripple validators are servers that confirm Ripple’s distributed financial technology transactions on the network. The CGI-hosted Ripple Validator Node provides banking...