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SBI takes stake in digital asset bank Sygnum

Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum has scored an eight-figure dollar investment from a unit of Japanese financial behemoth SBI Holdings.

18 February 2021

News/crypto

SBI opens cryptocurrency dealing desk

Japan's SBI Financial Services is opening a cryptocurrency dealing desk after acquiring liquidity provider B2C2.

16 December 2020

Company announcement/crypto

SIX and SBI Digital Asset Holdings plan Singapore JV

SIX Digital Exchange ("SDX") and SBI Digital Asset Holdings Co., Ltd., an SBI Group ("SBI") (8473) company today announced their intentions to work towards a joint venture to drive institutional digital asset liquidity through a Singapore-based digital issuance platform, exchange and CSD venue that is set to go-live by 2022 subject to regulatory approvals from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

08 December 2020

News/crypto

SBI Holdings unit introduces Bitcoin lending service

A unit at Japan's SBI Holdings is offering clients the option to lend it their Bitcoin holdings at a one per cent annual interest rate.

25 November 2020

News/payments

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