digital assets
Metaplanet (TSE: 3350) has announced a strategic four-party collaboration to explore the development of a digital credit market in Japan, utilizing a combination of Bitcoin, stablecoins, and security tokens (STs). The joint feasibility study brings together Metaplanet, its soon-to-be-renamed brokerage unit Metaplanet Securities (formerly Siiibo Securities)
digital assets
Since the issuance of Japan’s first digital corporate bond in 2020, the nation’s security token (ST) market has faced a persistent structural bottleneck: a "decoupled" settlement process. While blockchain technology allowed for the instantaneous transfer of assets, the "cash leg" of these transactions remained
tokenization
SBI Securities has announced the upcoming sale of SBI Holdings’ inaugural security token (ST) bond, a landmark issuance valued at 10 billion yen. Dubbed the "SBI START Bond," the offering represents the very first asset to be traded on the "START" proprietary trading system (PTS) operated
tokenization
MUFG has announced that, as part of preparations to issue the “Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group 1st series unsecured subordinated security token bond with optional-redemption clause, write-down upon the occurrence of a non-viability event clause and transfer restriction clause” (the ST Bond), it has submitted an amended registration
digital bond
Securitize Japan, which provides a security token (ST)/digital securities issuance and lifecycle management platform, announces that the Securitize Platform has been adopted for the security token bonds (digital bonds) planned to be issued by Pan Pacific International Holdings (PPIH), which operates the comprehensive discount store "Don Quijote,"
payments
JR West has launched its new payment service "Wesmo!" under the brand concept "Moving is Value," after becoming the first domestic railway operator to register as a Type II funds transfer service provider under the Payment Services Act. The company has previously provided the J-WEST
security token
TIS, a member of the TIS INTEC Group, and Kyoto Table Tennis Club have issued digital corporate bonds called "Kaguya Smile Token" through private placement, using TIS's platform "STLINK" which comprehensively supports the issuance and management of security tokens. Kyoto Table Tennis Club operates
capital markets
Nomura Research Institute, Nomura Securities, BOOSTRY, DeCurret DCP, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation collaborated on the issuance of a digital bond using a new settlement scheme, and executed a proof-of-concept for Japan's first securities settlement using digital currency. These steps would expand the market for digital