Nuggets beats HSBC, Commerzbank to FStech blockchain award

Payments and identity platform Nuggets has won the FStech award for Blockchain Project of the Year, ahead of heavyweights like HSBC and Commerzbank.

“We’re thrilled to have won this prestigious award,” says Alastair Johnson, Founder and CEO, Nuggets. “We were up against some incredible nominees. The fact we won against such titans of industry is evidence that businesses across a range of verticals recognise that the world of personal data has to change.”

The startup is developing partnerships with a number of banks, payment providers and services. It is also currently integrating its solution with Lateral Payments Solutions and with QFPay, the Chinese payment processor that serves over a billion users through the likes of Alipay and WeChat.

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