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Ripple invests in Money Tap

Ripple has invested in Money Tap, the P2P cash transfer app operated by a consortium of Japanese financial institutions.

03 November 2020

Company announcement/crypto

Sygnum and SBI establish early-stage fund for digital asset opportunities

Sygnum Group and SBI Group have entered into a partnership to establish an early-stage fund investing in digital asset opportunities across Southeast Asia and Europe.

06 October 2020

Company announcement/crypto

SBI takes 10% stake in Nomura/NRI blockchain unit Boostry

Nomura Holdings, Inc. today announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI) and SBI Holdings, Inc. (SBI) to transfer a portion of the shares it owns in BOOSTRY Co., Ltd., Nomura’s joint venture1 with NRI, to SBI. After the share transfer, Nomura will own 56%, NRI 34% and SBI 10% of BOOSTRY’s shares.

23 July 2020

News/startups

HSBC leads $7 million round in Episode Six

HSBC has led a $7 million funding round in digital API platform Episode Six, with contributions from Mastercard and SBI Investment.

22 July 2020

Company announcement/payments

Japan's SBI invests in Russian payments platform Qiwi

SBI Holdings, Inc. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, President & CEO: Yoshitaka Kitao; hereinafter “SBI Holdings”) hereby announces that its Singapore subsidiary SBI Ven Holdings Pte. Ltd. (Head office: Singapore) has concluded a basic agreement on investment in QIWI Platform LLC (Head office: INNOPOLIS Special Economic Zone, the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia; CEO: Maxim Avdeev; hereinafter “QPlatform”), a Russian fintech platform operator and a subsidiary of QIWI PLC (Head office: Cyprus; CEO: Boris Kim; hereinafter “QIWI”), Russia’s largest provider of payment services.

01 April 2020

News

SBI invests $20m in core banking-API integration firm OpenLegacy

Japan's SBI Holdings has invested $20 million in OpenLegacy Technologies, an American software firm that smooths API integration of core banking systems.

31 January 2020

News/payments

Visa joins $80m Currencycloud funding round

London-based B2B cross-border payments outfit Currencycloud has raised $80 million in a Series E funding round joined by blue-chip investors such as Visa, BNP Paribas and Siam Commercial Bank.

27 January 2020

News

Japan's SBI Group to invests in Boerse Stuttgart's digital assets business

Japan's SBI Group is to invest in Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange and Digital Ventures subsidiary.

20 December 2019

Company announcement

DriveWealth to deliver fractional trading in US stocks to Thailand

DriveWealth, LLC, a U.S. based leader in global digital trading technology, announced today its first partnership in Thailand.

05 December 2019

Company announcement/regulation

SoftBank crypto exchange adopts CoolBitX wallet for KYC

CoolBitX, a blockchain security company and creator of the first bluetooth-enabled mobile hardware wallet for digital assets, announces the successful early adoption of its technology by leading Japanese exchange SBI VC Trade Co., Ltd. (SBI VC) and the launch of Sygna, a first-to-market KYC/AML compliance-focused virtual asset transaction and security solution for Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs), individuals, and institutions.

08 August 2019

News/security

PixelPin secures £1.5 million in funding led by SBI Invest

UK identity and cybersecurity startup PixelPin, which uses image-based authentication instead of passwords, has closed a £1.5m Pre-Series A funding round, led by Japan's SBI Investment.

11 April 2019

News

R3 and SBI Holdings form Japan blockchain JV

Financial services group SBI Holdings is setting up a joint venture with R3 to push the distributed ledger technology specialist's Corda platform in Japan.

30 January 2019