In recent years, financial services leveraging blockchain technology have been increasingly deployed into society-primarily overseas-by connecting with existing financial services, and their presence as next generation financial infrastructure has continued to grow.
Against this backdrop, by combining KDDI’s customer base of more than 30 million users and its financial assets, including banking and payment services, with Coincheck Group’s global technological and business platform in the crypto asset domain and Coincheck’s one of the largest customer bases among licensed cryptocurrency exchange operators in Japan, KDDI will further strengthen its framework for promoting next generation financial businesses and create new blockchain based financial services.
The New Company plans to launch a digital asset wallet as its core business in the summer of 2026.
In addition, KDDI and au Financial Holdings are considering, in the future, the transfer of KDDI’s shareholdings in Coincheck Group and the New Company to au Financial Holdings, with the aim of integrating existing financial businesses and next generation financial businesses within the KDDI Group.
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