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norbloc was founded in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Astyanax Kanakakis and his co-founders, Vitalii Demianets and Sam Saatchi. Kanakakis and Demianets got to work to address a key gap in the industry: Know Your Customer (KYC) data sharing. As the first distributed KYC utility in the world, norbloc focused on platforms that connected financial institutions and governments, allowing the auditable sharing of sensitive information with the consent of the owner. norbloc connected with Emirates NBD in 2017 as one of 12 start-up finalists in the first cohort of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)'s fintech accelerator, known as Fintech Hive (The Hive). After the formal program ended, Kanakakis and Emirates NBD's leadership joined forces to make a step-change in KYC. In February 2020, after over two years of negotiating legal agreements, conducting pilots, and reviewing the regulatory implications of the platform, Emirates NBD signed a production agreement with norbloc. After announcing a collaboration with UAE banking players to develop a UAE KYC Blockchain Consortium and scaling norbloc's internal operations, Kanakakis reflected on how these opportunities all started with the DIFC Fintech Hive accelerator program.

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