MUFG

66 results about this entity

Period: 01 Oct 2015 - 28 May 2025

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FIS wins back office gig at MUFG Securities

FIS (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial technology, today announced it has been selected by MUFG Securities (Canada), Ltd. (MUSC) to power its back-office operations.

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MUFG uses photons to curb IT outages

NTT DATA and MUFG Bank have successfully tested technology that could prevent future IT outages: migrating live banking systems between data centres up to 100 km apart with less than one second of downtime.

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MUFG strengthens digital trade finance capabilities with Surecomp

MUFG is pleased to announce further efforts to strengthen its digital trade finance capabilities by adding Surecomp’s RIVO™ platform as its new trade finance multibank channel, complementing MUFG’s existing third-party channels in EMEA.

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MUFG to buy robo-advisor for $664m

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) says it will pay $664 million to take 100% ownership of robo-advisor WealthNavi.

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MUFG Bank goes live on CLSNet

CLS, a financial market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing, and data solutions, today announced that MUFG Bank (MUFG) has gone live on CLSNet, CLS’s bilateral payment netting calculation service for over 120 currencies.

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Japanese banks pilot stablecoin-based cross-border payments

Japanese banks MUFG, SMBC and Mizuho are participating in a pilot using stablecoins and the Swift network for cross-border payments.

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MUFG invests $333m in Indian digital lender DMI Finance

MUFG Bank is investing another $333 million in Indian digital lender DMI Finance at a valuation of around $3 billion.

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MUFG invests $393m in Filipino fintech Mynt

Philippines-based mobile payment and credit service Mynt has seen its valuation soar to $5 billion after Japan's MUFG and local investor Ayala each pumped $393 million into the GCash wallet operator.

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MUFG invests in Thai super app Ascend Money

MUFG and the Finnoventure Private Equity Trust I fund have invested $195 million in Thailand-based fintech unicorn Ascend Money.

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MUFG and Crédit Agricole complete first Chips payment in ISO 20022 format

MUFG Bank, Ltd., one of the largest banks in Japan, and Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank, one of the leading investment banking groups in Europe, successfully completed the first payment in the ISO 20022 message format on The Clearing House’s CHIPS network, the largest private-sector high-value clearing and settlement system in the world.

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MUFG inks multi-year deal with AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Japan’s largest financial services provider, is accelerating its cloud-first strategy with AWS as its preferred cloud provider.

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Big banks back Asian wealth management platform Endowus

Citi, UBS and MUFG has joined a US$35 million funding round for Asian digital wealth management platform Endowus.