2022-9-26 15:46 |
Japanese banking giant Nomura has invested in Fnality, a global banking consortium focusing on developing a blockchain-based payment system to support the adoption of tokenized assets and marketplaces. origin »
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Nomura Holdings, one of the largest investment banks in Japan and the leading member of the Nomura Group, announced the launch of Laser Digital Holdings, a venture capital arm focusing on crypto. Nomura’s move comes after a slew of financial…
2022-9-22 14:05 | |
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“Staying at the forefront of digital innovation is a key priority for Nomura,” said president and group CEO of Nomura Holdings Kentaro Okuda.
2022-9-22 23:45 | |
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Japan’s largest investment banking broker is set to launch a subsidiary focused on institutional bitcoin and cryptocurrency products.
2022-5-17 17:14 | |
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Mizuho Securities, a leading Japanese investment banking and securities company, recently conducted a survey and found that a significant portion of US stimulus funds will be used to buy Bitcoin and stocks.
2021-3-17 00:25 | |
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Japan’s largest financial institution, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is planning to issue the MUFG token in the second half of 2020.
2020-7-15 21:28 | |
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Major banking giants in Japan together crypto exchange platform DeCurret have formed a working group to explore digital currency payments interoperability. Meanwhile, regulators in the country are warning investment advisors to fulfill the necessary licensing requirements before offering their services.
2020-6-5 01:03 | |
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According to the Nikkei newspaper, SMFG will acquire a 20% stake in an SBI Holdings subsidiary to facilitate the partnership
2020-4-28 04:26 | |
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The Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan’s premier regulator for securities, banking, and insurance, has announced the Blockchain Governance Initiative Network (BGIN) as a means of gathering stakeholders so they can broaden their understanding of the technology and implement it in a sustainable manner, as reported by Finextra, March 11, 2020.
2020-3-12 22:00 | |
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Japan’s second-biggest banking institution has teamed up with SBI Holdings to develop a financial service platform that will be based on blockchain, Japanese based Nikkei reports. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is set to deposit money in Japanese financial conglomerate in efforts to enhance the utilization of distributed ledger technology (DLT) within the trade finance […]
2020-1-31 02:12 | |
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SBI Holdings, the Japanese banking giant, has recently published its latest report. In the document, the company talks about its strategies and reports its latest plans. One of them is to use Ripple’s XRP tokens for international remittances that will be made between Japan and the Southeast Asian region. According to the company’s report, the […]
2019-11-1 00:49 | |
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Recently, Japanese banking giant, SBI Holdings, published its performance and strategy report, while announcing plans to use XRP to enable remittances from Japan to South-East Asia. According to the report, SBI Remit will utilize the On-Demand Liquidity service from Ripple (ODL, formerly xRapid) for this endeavor.
2019-11-1 19:30 | |
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), which is the third-largest bank by assets in Japan, has effectively executed Marco Polo's blockchain trade finance platform, as indicated by the press release release on October 18.
2019-10-22 18:35 | |
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Ripple and its partnerships have made headlines all across the cryptocurrency space as being the pioneer in changing the system of cross-border payments. One of the main tie-ups of the Brad Garlinghouse-led company was with Japanese banking conglomerate, SBI Holdings, which has evolved into several subsidiary partnerships.
2019-4-28 03:30 | |
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By CCN. com: One of Japan’s largest online brokerages, Monex, may soon allow retail investors to buy bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on its platform. Monex claims the move into cryptocurrency will help claw back its diminishing market share.
2019-4-16 17:49 | |
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SBI Holdings, a major financial and banking giant in Japan, has formally announced the launch of SBI Mining Chip Co. , Ltd. , officially entering the bitcoin mining industry. In recent months, the most dominant forces in the global bitcoin mining industry in the likes of Bitmain, Cannan, and Japanese internet conglomerate GMO have struggled to adjust to market conditions.
2019-3-23 20:45 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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CoinSpeaker Japanese Banking Giant Mizuho’s J-Coin Should Not Be Mistaken for a Cryptocurrency Mizuho's J-Coin will be a normal digital token, not based on the blockchain technology.
2019-3-7 16:26 | |
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CoinSpeaker Japanese Banking Giant Mizuho Unveils Its Own Crypto on March 1 Mizuho Bank will partner with over 60 financial institutions to use its J-Coin Pay platform while serving over 59 million customers.
2019-2-27 18:43 | |
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Almost a fortnight since JPMorgan unveiled its own cryptocurrency and nearly three years after conducting tests, Japanese financial giant Mizuho Financial Group has announced a launch date for its digital currency, J-Coin.
2019-2-27 13:15 | |
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Japanese banking giant Mizuho Financial Group is preparing to issue its own yen-pegged stablecoin next month.
2019-2-26 12:41 | |
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Mizuho Financial Group (MHFG), a highly-reputed Japanese financial institution offering clients a vast array of financial services including banking, asset management and more, has announced it would launch a yen-pegged stablecoin called J-Coin.
2019-2-22 20:00 | |
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Japan’s banking giant Mizuho Financial Group will launch its digital currency platform for payments and remittance services in March
2019-2-22 14:41 | |
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Japanese banking giant Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is launching a high-throughput blockchain-based payments network next year.
2019-2-13 13:00 | |
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Japanese law authorities have proposed a ten-year prison sentence for the ousted founder of the now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, reported local publication Mainichi on December 12, 2018. Mt. Gox in Shambles Once the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, Mt.
2018-12-13 04:00 | |
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IT Giant Fujitsu Teams With 9 Banks For Blockchain Settlement Trial In a press release on Monday, the technology corporation Fujitsu informed that a group of nine Japanese banks approached it for a field trial involving blockchain technology for faster and secure settlements of banking transactions. The press release informs that the test’s goal is: […]
2018-10-30 03:48 | |
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Zebpay is reportedly expanding its global presence after suspending cryptocurrency trading operations in India due to the banking ban imposed by the country’s central bank. According to information on its website, an entity has been set up to operate the Zebpay exchange in Malta to serve 20 countries.
2018-10-17 09:30 | |
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The popular digital currency exchange, Bitfinex has reportedly stopped its USD deposits to their exchange. This news comes after last weeks, several rumours that the exchange was broke which made management forced to step up and deny the rumours that they were not bankrupt.
2018-10-11 21:30 | |
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GMO Internet Group is working to launch a stablecoin by 2019. In an announcement released on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, the Japanese IT conglomerate said it is putting all gears in place to begin building its stablecoin, called the GMO Japanese Yen (GJY).
2018-10-10 02:10 | |
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Top-three cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is pushing back against claims that call its solvency into question. The Hong Kong-based company released a blog post on October 7, 2017, that states, contrary to recent rumors, it is not insolvent.
2018-10-9 00:43 | |
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One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in India, Zebpay, is shutting down its exchange activities due to the crypto banking ban imposed by the country’s central bank. “At this point, we are unable to find a reasonable way to conduct the cryptocurrency exchange business,” Zebpay wrote.
2018-9-28 14:28 | |
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SBI Holdings, a Japanese company with major banking subsidiaries including SBI Securities, SBI FXTRADE, and SBI Virtual Currencies, has received the green light from Japanese regulatory authorities to move forward with their partnership with US-based Ripple in order to launch a new joint venture called SBI Ripple Asia.
2018-9-27 12:30 | |
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The Japanese banking giant plans on rolling out the “S Coin” in an attempt to dominate the mobile payments sector. This new project fits the overall vision of the company to ultimately help Japan turn cashless.
2018-9-27 21:10 | |
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All petitions against the crypto banking ban by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are supposed to have been heard by the country’s supreme court on September 11. However, the court has been busy every day this week and has postponed the RBI ban hearing.
2018-9-15 00:10 | |
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Japanese Fintech heavyweight SBI Holdings plans to launch a Ripple-powered mobile payment application called MoneyTap. In a tweet shared with his followers, Takashi Okita, CEO of SBI Ripple Asia shared the web page of the new payment application, which promises to offer "easy bank transfer application" without fees.
2018-9-15 22:03 | |
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GMO Internet Group leverages the robust blockchain technology to streamline an interbank settlement system and create “next-generation” banking services. Being at the verge of blockchain revolution, Japanese fintech giant GMO Internet Inc.
2018-7-19 23:47 | |
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GMO Internet Group leverages the robust blockchain technology to streamline an interbank settlement system and create "next-generation" banking services. The post Japanese Tech Conglomerate GMO Launches New Blockchain-based Banking Business appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-7-19 21:59 | |
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Afther months of delays, Japan's banking giant SBI Holdings announced their new in-house cryptocurrency exchange is now available for users. The post Japanese Financial Giant SBI Holdings Opens its Crypto Trading Platform VCTRADE to Public appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-7-17 21:11 | |
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Fnality, a fintech firm specializing in tokenizing major currencies backed by central bank cash, has raised $95 million in a Series B round led by Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas. According to a report on Nov. 14, Fnality, the London-based…
Nomura, Japan’s largest investment bank, announced that its subsidiary Laser Digital Asset Management has introduced a Bitcoin Adoption Fund aimed at providing institutional investors with direct exposure to Bitcoin.
The company can now offer its full range of digital asset custody services to clients in the emirate, including institutional staking and collateral management.
Laser Digital will start its trading and asset management business in the coming months.
Japan-based banking giant Nomura, announced today that its digital assets subsidiary, Laser Digital, has made a strategic investment in Infinity, a non-custodial interest rate protocol built on Ethereum.
Laser Digital, a division of Nomura, is set to adopt Bitcoin as of 2023. Despite Nomura being adamant on digital assets earlier, the bank is looking to tap more into the crypto sector.