regional banks
In September 2025, The Chiba Bank and The Chiba Kogyo Bank have jointly declared their resolution to pursue a management consolidation. Formalized at the time through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the move aims to establish a new bank holding company that will serve as the wholly-owning
core banking
CC Innovation, a subsidiary of the newly rebranded CCI Group, announced a significant strategic expansion for its upcoming next-generation core banking system, "BankWill." Slated for launch in January 2027, the platform will now incorporate Amazon Web Services (AWS) into its multi-cloud infrastructure and introduce flexible purchasing models, stepping
core banking
Hokkoku Bank has announced the full-scale launch of integrated loan approval and execution capabilities within its proprietary "IBPlatform," marking a significant step in the regional lender’s digital transformation strategy. Moving beyond the platform's initial scope as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool, the new update
core banking
Kyndryl and IBM Japan have been selected to lead a major modernization of Yamaguchi Financial Group’s (Yamaguchi FG) core banking systems, a move designed to consolidate the regional lender’s IT operations into a single, unified platform. The modernization effort is targeted for completion by January 2029. According to
Tallinn
The fourth stop of our "ICT & FinTech Mission to Tallinn" last week, courtesy of Enterprise Estonia, led us to Tuum, where we were hosted by Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer Rivo Uibo. Tuum is a next-generation core banking platform provider headquartered in Estonia, positioning itself under the
core banking
SBI Sumishin Net Bank has decided to evolve the open-system core banking system "NEFSS (Next Evolution in Financial Services Systems)" provided by IBM Japan into a new architecture that enables expansion aligned with future growth, and to fully migrate to an Amazon Web Services cloud environment by early
core banking
CC Innovation, a group company of Hokkoku Financial Holdings, has decided to license the next-generation core banking system currently being developed for Hokukoku Bank from January 2028, as well as various subsystems developed and utilized in-house, to regional financial institutions outside the group. CC Innovation will also begin providing migration
core banking
Digital Garage has begun providing the Business Invoice Payment Service (BIPS) based on the B2B payment service "DGFT Invoice Card Payment" to "DX Connect Gate," a platform for streamlining accounting operations such as invoice receipt and payment, jointly developed by TIS and Hiroshima Bank for regional
cloud
Sony Bank, in collaboration with Fujitsu, has launched a next-generation digital banking system built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), revamping its core banking system. The financial industry environment is evolving with technological advances. As customer needs diversify, there is increasing demand to improve customer satisfaction through enhanced convenience and value