The Central Bank of Sri Lanka said it has received an invitation to join the R3 Consortium, the group of financial institutions focusing on the distributed ledger technology. Representatives of R3 have been in Sri Lanka explaining the salient aspects of the technology to officials of the central bank. They had outlined what the consortium is doing and has extended an invitation to the Central Bank to join the effort. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation is the first regulatory body to join R3.
