MUFG

57 results about this entity

Period: 01 Oct 2015 - 17 Apr 2024

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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MUFG Bank launches $300m Indian startup fund

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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MUFG launches second fintech VC fund

Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has set up its second venture capital fund to invest a $182 pot in fintech startups.

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InvestCloud bags deal with MUFG

InvestCloud, an award winning global FinTech firm serving some of the largest banks, wealth managers and asset managers in the world, today announced the deployment of its Wealth Adviser Platform by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Japan’s largest bank and one of the world's largest banks by total assets.

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MUFG Union Bank launches green deposit accounts

MUFG Union Bank, N.A., today announced that it has launched Green Deposits for commercial and corporate clients to support sustainable projects that benefit the environment.

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MUFG to implement shareholder disclosure tech from AxiomSL

AxiomSL, the industry’s leading provider of risk and regulatory reporting solutions, today announced an agreement with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), a leading global financial services group and one of the largest banking institutions in Japan, to implement AxiomSL’s Global Shareholding Disclosures solution.

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Mizuho, MUFG join Japanese quantum consortium

Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the University of Tokyo unveiled a landmark collaboration with the launch of the Quantum Innovation Initiative Consortium (QIIC).

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MUFG Investor Services selects Broadridge for loan tracking and reporting

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader, announces that MUFG Investor Services, an industry leader in administration, asset servicing, banking and fund financing, has selected Broadridge’s Sentry loan tracking and reporting technology to service its clients in the private debt space.

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MUFG invests in POS financing platform ChargeAfter

US multi-lender Point-of-Sale financing platform ChargeAfter has secured an investment from the venture capital arm of Japanese financial services giant MUFG.

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Japanese banks explore common digital currency settlement infrastructure

Japan's three biggest banks are investigating the creation of a digital currency settlement infrastructure.