Standard Bank Group, located in South Africa, is Africa's largest bank by assets and among the longest operating financial institutions on the continent having been founded more than 150 years ago. The Group offers a comprehensive suite of financial products and services via the Hedera blockchain including a wide array of payment processing solutions for both individuals and businesses.

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The firm’s primary functions include facilitating transactional banking, lending, asset finance, merchant solutions, trade finance, and international payment services for its business and enterprise clients. Standard Bank also provides insurance and asset management services. 

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As a member of the Hedera Governing Council, Standard Bank provides enterprise-grade, secure transactions and digitized cross-border trade processes on the immutable Hedera distributed blockchain ledger. 

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Standard Bank is one of the leading Hedera-based service providers utilizing Hedera's Token Service (HTS) and Consensus Service (HCS). The primary focus of this collaboration is to improve transaction efficiency and reduce costs associated with international cross-border payments.

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Coforge is a global digital services and solutions provider headquartered in India, with offices in the US, UK, Asia, and Australia. It assists clients in transforming their businesses by integrating domain expertise with emerging technologies. 

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The firm primarily serves sectors such as banking and financial services, insurance, and travel and hospitality. As a member of the Hedera Governing Council, it serves a key role in the distributed ledger technology (DLT) space.

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Coforge offers services utilizing data and analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, and digital process automation to deploy innovative solutions on the Hedera platform. Its offerings include application development and management, managed services, and business process solutions, all with a focus on creating intelligent, high-performing, and secure systems. 

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Through its role with Hedera, Coforge is supports a diverse group of international clients in their digital transformation journeys and serves leading organizations, including numerous Fortune 500 companies. These include Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Salesforce, among others. 

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Pyth Network is a first-party financial oracle network that supplies extremely low-latency real-world price data across crypto, equities, forex, commodities, and ETFs. In February 2024 the Pyth catalog of over 400 price feeds was launched on Hedera via a partnership with the HBAR Foundation, giving developers permission-less access to real-time data and confidence intervals to improve DeFi risk management. HLiquity, a decentralized borrowing protocol on Hedera, became the first application to integrate these feeds to ensure accurate pricing and proper collateralization.

C14 is a financial technology company that provides a seamless fiat-to-crypto on-ramp solution for developers building on the Hedera blockchain network. Its core product is an easily embeddable widget that decentralized applications (dApps), wallets, and marketplaces can integrate directly into their platforms.

With C14's widget, users can purchase digital assets directly within the dApp they are using, employing familiar payment methods like credit or debit cards. The platform handles the entire transaction flow, including regulatory compliance aspects like Know Your Customer (KYC) checks, and delivers the purchased assets directly to the user's connected wallet. This creates a simple, "one-click" experience that significantly lowers the barrier to entry for mainstream adoption.

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