Tagged: mufg bank

August 6, 2023 @ 8:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Contour, the digital trade finance network, announced that the Singapore office of MUFG Bank, which claims to be Japan’s premier bank is joining its growing digital network. MUFG has a global presence “spanning around 50 markets, while its parent Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 2:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MUFG Bank (NYSE:MUFG) claims it is the “first” Japanese bank to commit to using CLSNet, CLS’s bilateral payment netting calculation service “for over 120 currencies.” MUFG Bank will “join the expanding CLSNet community of global and regional banks, which includes eight of the top ten… Read More

April 11, 2022 @ 10:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Liquidity Group recently announced that it has entered into agreements with respect to “approximately $775 million in capital commitments year-to-date 2022, led by funds and entities managed by affiliates of Apollo (NYSE: APO).” The commitments, which are “subject to satisfaction of certain conditions,” will reportedly… Read More

March 14, 2022 @ 10:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MUFG Bank (NYSE:MUFG) recently revealed that it intends to invest as much as $300 million in middle- to late-stage Indian startups via the newly established MUFG Ganesha Fund. In the foreseeable future, MUFG stated that it would plan to strategically leverage its group strengths in… Read More

November 21, 2021 @ 9:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Southeast Asia-based online financing platform Funding Societies announced earlier this week that it teamed up with MUFG Bank Malaysia, which operates as a subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, in order to introduce a Referral Scheme Program exclusively for the banking institution’s corporate customers in… Read More

December 4, 2020 @ 7:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Security Token Advisors, which aims to “reinvent” finance with security tokens, reveals that the world’s top 100 banks in terms of assets under management (AUM) are learning how to “reinvent themselves” with blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT). The Security Token Advisors… Read More

August 10, 2020 @ 9:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An Israel-based AI technology firm is planning to help MUFG Bank, which is Japan’s largest financial institution, with assessing the operations of Asian startups in order to determine the feasibility of issuing loans to them. The $80 million 50-50 joint initiative between Tel Aviv based… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 11:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US-based ChargeAfter, a global network that enables retailers to match their consumers with credit and financing offers, has received an investment from the VC division of Japan’s financial services giant MUFG. The actual amount invested has not been shared publicly. However, the announcement noted that… Read More