Japan’s Largest Bank is Building Its Own Digital Coin
Japan’s largest bank – Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFJ) – has announced that it is working to create its own virtual currency similar to Bitcoin in an effort to reduce expenses and establish a robust backend accounting and settlement system. According to unnamed bank officials, the virtual currency will be called “MUFG coin” after the Mitsubishi UFJ....
Related News
According to a report, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd., Japan’s largest bank will soon become the world’s first global bank to issue its own digital currency. A new bank-issued virtual currency may be in the offing next year. Dubbed “MUFG coin”, short for the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group — the parent company of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi – the bank, will issue the virtual currency in the autumn of 2017, according to a report on The Asahi Shimbun, a prominent national newspaper in Japan. The publication cites sources who reveal that the virtual currency will help facilitate....
After many years of digital currency development, Japan’s largest bank, MUFG, has officially introduced its own stablecoin project. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Japan’s largest financial group, is working hard to take the lead in stablecoin development, launching a proprietary stablecoin project.On Wednesday, MUFG introduced its stablecoin platform called “Progmat Coin,” a blockchain-based system for issuing and managing stablecoins pegged on a 1:1 ratio to the Japanese yen.The platform aims to enable a “universal digital asset payment method,” providing cross-chain....
Is a major Japanese financial institution developing its own digital currency? First asserted in a report by The Asahi Shimbun in February, a number of reports are now speculating that Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG), one of Japan’s largest banks by total assets, is working on its own digital currency, named MUFG coin. As reported by The Asahi Shimbun today, MUFG coin is expected to become available in late 2017, a release that would allow users to withdraw digital currency from its ATM network onto a mobile device. The news source wrote: "Under the planned system, users can....
The largest bank in Japan, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, or MUFG, has confirmed it is testing its digital currency using the Blockchain technology. This fact gives credence to the evolutionary potential of fully integrating cryptocurrencies into the existing banking system. "Regarding the speculation (in) media reports, these reports are not based on any announcement by MUFG, and the details have not been decided," the bank's spokesman said in an emailed statement to Reuters. "However we can only say that it's true that MUFG is conducting demonstration experiments on the....
According to a recent report by CoinPost, MUTB, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, one of Japan’s largest financial institutions, in partnership with Binance Japan and Progmat, has announced the start of joint consideration for the development of a new stablecoin. Leveraging the Progmat Coin platform, compliant with Japanese regulations, the collaborative effort aims […]