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Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank starts blockchain trials

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited (President: Hitoshi Tsunekage; hereinafter “SuMi TRUST Bank”), with the objective to enhance its services in asset management and administration, real estate and banking businesses; working in cooperation with NEC Corporation (President and CEO: Takashi Niino) and IBM Japan, Ltd. (Country General Manager and President: Paul Yonamine), announces the commencement of demonstration experiments in FinTech.

25 October 2016

Company announcement

Sumitomo Mitsui signs speadsheet management deal with ClusterSeven

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited (SMBCE), a subsidiary of the global Japanese commercial bank, is deploying ClusterSeven’s End User Computing (EUC) governance platform to enable the bank to understand its EUC (spreadsheets, databases and financial modelling tools) landscape, identify where the risks lie and institute the necessary automated controls to mitigate them.

19 September 2016

Company announcement

Sumitomo Mitsui, Daon and NTT proposes biometric joint venture

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation signed an agreement with NTT DATA Corporation and Daon for the commercialization of services offering individual identification platforms that use several different types of biometrics.

16 September 2016

Company announcement

SMBC expands use of FircoSoft

FircoSoft, the leading global provider of watch list filtering solutions, jointly with their partner NTT DATA Getronics in Japan, today announced that Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) decided to expand the use of FircoSoft products to their East Asia and APAC branches.

06 October 2015

Company announcement

Vasco and Sumitomo Mitsui to create secure mobile banking app

Vasco Data Security (NASDAQ: VDSI) today announced that Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) will provide their online retail banking customers with a highly-secure mobile banking solution for their smartphones developed with Vasco's Digipass for Apps.

05 August 2015

Company announcement

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust goes live with Lombard Risk Reporter

Lombard Risk Management plc (LSE:LRM) is pleased to announce that the London branch of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank has successfully gone live with Lombard Risk REPORTER for Bank of England / Financial Conduct Authority regulatory reporting.

11 June 2015

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Japanese bank hires robot suits to help staffers lift heavy cash

Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) has come up with a high-tech answer to a low-tech problem: fitting out elderly employees with robotic suits to help them lift heavy stacks of cash.

08 May 2015

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Visa launches virtual debit card programme in Japan

Visa has partnered Japan Net Bank (JNB) on the country's first virtual debit card programme for online merchant payments.

26 February 2010

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Two found guilty in £229 million Sumitomo spyware fraud case

A Soho sex shop owner and self-proclaimed knight of the realm have been found guilty for their role in a conspiracy to steal £229 million from Sumitomo Mitsui Bank in a hi-tech software scam.

04 March 2009

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Hackers accused of £229m Sumitomo fraud plot

A gang of thieves broke into the London offices of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and installed keylogging software on computers in a daring plot to steal £229 million, a court has been told.

22 January 2009

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SMBC to implement Centrix application publishing platform

Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is rolling out technology from Centrix Software across its European and Americas divisions to provide users with access to all applications and services through a standard browser.

05 November 2008

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SMBC moves to Temenos T24 for Asia Pacific business

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is to install the T24 core banking platform from Geneva-based Temenos in all 13 of its Asia Pacific branches across seven countries.

17 April 2007