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Company announcement/payments

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.

17 April 2024

Company announcement/cloud

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.

14 November 2023

News/wealth

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.

10 August 2023

News/inclusion

Indian digital lender DMI raises $400m

Indian digital lender DMI Finance has raised $400 million in a financing round led by Japanese giant Mitsubishi Bank.

08 March 2023

Company announcement/wholesale

MUFG becomes first Japanese bank to commit to CLSNet

CLS, a market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, today announces that MUFG Bank is the first Japanese bank to commit to using CLSNet, CLS’s bilateral payment netting calculation service for over 120 currencies.

01 December 2022

Research

The Future of ESGTech 2023

12 September 2022 800 downloads

News/payments

Banks invest in multi-lender BNPL platform ChargeAfter

Citi Ventures, Banco Bradesco and MUFG have joined a $44 million Series B funding round for multi-lender BNPL player ChargeAfter.

22 March 2022

News/inclusion

MUFG Bank launches $300m Indian startup fund

Japan's MUFG Bank is launching a $300 million fund to invest in Indian startups.

15 March 2022

News/payments

MUFG shutters blockchain-based payments network

Mitsubishi UFJ has pulled the plug on its blockchain-based online payment network, Global Open Network Japan (GO-NET Japan), citing the "recent hard business environment" for payments.

23 February 2022

Company announcement/regulation

OCC hits MUFG Union Bank with cease and desist order over IT failings

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today issued a Cease and Desist Order against MUFG Union Bank, N.A.

21 September 2021

Company announcement/crypto

Thailand's Bank of Ayudhya joins Zipmex funding round

Zipmex, a major and fast-growing contender for the title of Asia-Pacific's leading digital assets platform, announces Krungsri Finnovate Company Limited, Bank of Ayudhya PCL’s corporate venture capital arm as a milestone investor in its Series B fundraising.

31 August 2021

News/crypto

Coinbase enters Japan through MUFG partnership

US crypto exchange Coinbase is launching in Japan through a partnership with local banking giant Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG).

19 August 2021