Krypton has been invited to partner with the University of Luxembourg's SnT FinTech Lab.
From the invitation letter:
SnT is a centre of excellence with 250 scientists on staff covering cybersecurity and many other areas in ICT. What makes SnT unique in Luxembourg is the combination of fundamental long-term R&D combined with industrial partnerships, with industry partners, government institutions and start-ups.
The centre is led by prof. Bjorn Ottersten who is an eminent scientist and equally managing a research group focussed on satellite communications and signal processing.
Since 4Q 2016, SnT decided to develop FinTech as one of the pillars of the centre’s activities for the next few years. This coincides with an emerging interest to engage in FinTech amongst the 154 banks, investment funds, asset managers, auditors etc. located in Luxembourg. In 1H 2016 we arranged a very successful FinTech event attended by 500 top executives and I have met with more than 60 potential partners at CXO level to discuss joint research projects in FinTech. We are now signing R&D partnerships with several of these stakeholders.
The main industry interest In Luxembourg are in three areas: - -Blockchain, Bitcoin, DLT and Smart Contracts
- -Data Analytics
- -Cybersecurity and Testing
The second important trend is that potential partners interested to develop innovation enabled by Blockchain and DLT technologies; but they would like to be able to prototype and test various solutions before embarking upon a longer term research project.
The FinTech Lab aims to provide this environment by hosting a technical platform and the human resources required to experiment with emerging paradigms in the FinTech area. The Lab will be a necessary interface between SnT's researchers, R&D departments of leading FinTech developers, scientists around the world and, for some of the applied R&D with partners enrolled into the Partnership Program; thereby enabling Luxembourg to create an economic impact and attract inward investments.
We would like to invite KRYPTON to participate in this Lab by contributing to a cutting edge and vendor-neutral testbed for designing, developing, prototyping and validating multiple testbed solutions within the main FinTech research areas pursued by SnT. This is exactly why we would be very interested to develop a win-win partnership with KRYPTON.
Full letter:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fktgrs90iw2ijv4/Krypton%20Letter%202907_2016.docx?dl=0SnT Annual Report 2015:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/66efxf5hfiypgns/SnT%20Annual%20Report%202015.pdf?dl=0FinTech Gazette 2016:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lazpboyxgd93p2c/FinTech_Gazette%20I%202016_Web%20Version.pdf?dl=0Krypton is now drafting a letter to formally accept this parnership proposal. We're proud KR was chosen as the testing platform to be used by the University of Luxembourg's SnT FinTech Lab. It's quite an honor.