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The Sphere in Las Vegas lights up after an earnings report in 2024. SBI Holdings is exploring a similar idea for a venue in Tokyo.
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Apr 9, 2026
Tokyo¡¯s concert scene searches for its next act
Tokyo¡¯s live music future is coming into focus ¡ª and it looks more domestic, and possibly more immersive.
The Sphere lights up in Las Vegas. SBI Holdings is exploring plans to build a Tokyo arena modeled on the iconic immersive venue.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 1, 2026
SBI Holdings eyes Sphere arena in new Tokyo entertainment push
The Tokyo-based financial group is considering the Odaiba waterfront district as a potential site for the project.
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, has said that stablecoin issuers can become major buyers of government bonds.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 5, 2026
Stablecoins likely to be a factor, not a game changer, in Japan¡¯s bond market
Issuers might not buy up enough long-term debt to make a big difference.
SBI Holdings subsidiary Shinsei Trust and Banking is set to issue a yen-based stablecoin next year.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 16, 2025
Japan¡¯s first bank-backed yen-based stablecoin could be available by June 2026
The hope is that it will be used for the settlement of payments locally and globally
SBI Shinsei Bank plans to raise up to ?400 billion in its initial public offering, set to be one of Japan's largest listings this year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2025
SBI Shinsei Bank targets ?400 billion Tokyo IPO for valuation around ?1 trillion
The lender was taken private in 2023 to repay Shinsei¡¯s government bailout, which parent SBI Holdings completed this year.
After accounts in several online brokerage were hacked, three major online brokerage firms announced they will compensate customers for half of the damage.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 27, 2025
Three online brokerages to cover half of damage from account hacking
However they will not compensate for cases in which stocks held in hacked accounts since before the hack were sold, since the proceeds remain in the accounts.
SBI Holdings repaying the public funds on July 31 will mark?the end to the aftermath of a financial crisis triggered by the bursting in the early 1990s of the asset-inflated economic bubble?in Japan.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 25, 2025
SBI to fully repay public funds next month
SBI repaying the public funds would mark?the end to the aftermath of a financial crisis triggered by the bursting in the early 1990s of the asset-inflated economic bubble?in Japan.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking will be one of the funding sources for a wealth management joint venture by Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and SBI Holdings.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 16, 2025
Sumitomo Mitsui and SBI to launch wealth management joint venture
Policymakers in Japan are encouraging individual investors to put more of their money in riskier assets such as equities.
As part of the tie-up between NTT and SBI Holdings, NTT Docomo will make SBI Sumishin Net Bank a consolidated subsidiary.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 29, 2025
NTT and SBI agree on business and capital tie-up
Through the alliance, the two sides hope to work together to merge the two worlds of telecommunications and finance.
Sumitomo and SBI Holdings will invest in FPT Smart Cloud Japan, which oversees FPT¡¯s Japan AI data center.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 22, 2025
Sumitomo and SBI Holdings to take stakes in Vietnam¡¯s FPT AI unit
FPT?is setting up a Japan AI data center, with an initial investment of $200 million.
SBI Holdings CEO Yoshitaka Kitao speaks during a news conference on Thursday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 17, 2025
SBI Holdings CEO to ¡®fight to the end¡¯ if Fuji Media resists leadership rethink
Yoshitaka Kitao said he will increase SBI Holdings¡¯ stake in Fuji Media Holdings depending on how the TV network responds.
One 36-year-old man, a company employee who had used Rakuten Securities for over a decade, lost about ?2.1 million ($14,700) in the scheme.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 17, 2025
Japanese online brokerage accounts hacked in growing scandal
Rakuten Securities has disclosed a series of account takeovers, with Nomura Securities, SBI Securities and other firms also confirming similar incidents.
Japan¡¯s robo-adviser market, estimated to be worth around ?3 trillion, has massive room for growth, says the CEO of robo-adviser Folio Holdings.
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2025
SBI-backed Japan robo-adviser Folio targets swing to profit and IPO
Japan¡¯s robo-adviser market is estimated to be worth around $19.8 billion.
Solaris secured about €100 million ($103 million) from SBI Holdings for the stake.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 7, 2025
Japan¡¯s SBI said to agree to take majority stake in Solaris
Germany¡¯s economic struggles have placed a greater burden on the country¡¯s larger fintech companies.
DMM Bitcoin plans to hand over its customers' deposits to SBI VC Trade, a cryptocurrency exchange unit of SBI Holdings, around next March.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 2, 2024
Crypto exchange operator DMM Bitcoin to close business
About ?48.2 billion¡¯s worth of customers¡¯ bitcoin deposits were stolen in May.
The U.S. federal prosecutors' indictment of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani over an alleged bribery plot last week has sent ripples across the globe.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 26, 2024
Japan¡¯s SBI follows Nomura in disclosing Adani funds exposure
The moves underscore how U.S. federal prosecutors¡¯ indictment of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani over an alleged bribery plot has sent ripples across the globe.
In 2023, SBI, PSMC and the Miyagi Prefectural Government formed a basic agreement to construct a chipmaking plant in the village of Ohira, but SBI has announced that the tie-up with PSMC ended.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 29, 2024
SBI to end plant construction tie-up with Taiwanese chipmaker
The Japanese online financial group has vowed to carry out the semiconductor plant project by finding new partners.
The Financial Services Agency ordered SBI Securities to halt part of its business related to initial public offerings through Jan. 18 as a penalty for having manipulated clients' post-IPO share prices.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 13, 2024
Japan¡¯s biggest online brokerage SBI punished for market rigging
The Financial Services Agency on Friday instructed the nation¡¯s biggest online broker SBI Securities not to solicit trade orders from clients for shares on the day they list.
Yoshitaka Kitao, chief executive officer of SBI Holdings, says Japan is preparing the groundwork for the full-scale introduction of stablecoins.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 28, 2023
Circle enters pact with Japan¡¯s SBI to spur USDC stablecoin usage
They will also establish a banking relationship and promote the use of Circle¡¯s Web3 services in Japan.
Rakuten Securities President Yuji Kusunoki
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 17, 2023
Rakuten Securities sees payoff from free trading plan after a year
The firm plans to make up for the decrease in domestic stock trading commission fee revenues by expanding its financial services such as margin trading.
Japanese payment processor¡¯s collapse hits banks and restaurants
Zentoshin served around 200,000 shops, many of which rely on early payments to maintain cash flow, raising concerns over their financial stability following the disruption.
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
Trump says ¡®Japan¡¯ instead of Iran at meeting in Ankara
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference during a NATO leaders' summit in Ankara on Wednesday.
Wakatakakage injury casts pall over July meet, but potential new stars loom
Nicholas Tarasenko trains at Minato stable in August 2024.
Osaka trumps Tokyo as both ranked among world¡¯s top 10 most livable cities
Osaka¡¯s infrastructure earned higher marks than Tokyo¡¯s in the Economist Intelligence Unit¡¯s latest Global Liveability Index.
¡®Princess Mononoke¡¯ comes alive in Super Kabuki staging
The ¡°Princess Mononoke¡± adaptation was created under Shochiku¡¯s Super Kabuki initiative, a modern form of kabuki with more technology in staging and open to pop culture collaborations.
The beating heart inside ¡®Human Vapor¡¯
Different forms of love and connection form the emotional backbone of Netflix¡¯s ¡°Human Vapor,¡± says actor Shun Oguri, who plays troubled detective Kenji Okamoto.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.
Filmmaker explores history of discrimination against foreign nationals in Japan
Takashi Nishihara, the director of "Now and Then," in Tokyo on Wednesday. The director has spent 10 years traversing politically charged terrain while exploring youth-driven grassroots political movements that scrutinize the status quo.
Okinawa¡¯s prized seaweed under threat as oceans warm
Local harvesters gather <i>mozuku</i> during low tide at Hyakuna Beach in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture. As the planet warms, rising ocean temperatures are placing increasing pressure on the seaweed industry.

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