Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the largest financial institution of Japan, has planned to issue its own digital currency in the second half of 2020. On July 13, it has been reported that the digital currency project was originally designed to run on a blockchain network and facilitate instant peer-to-peer transactions, which initiated back in 2015. After multiple delays, the initiative is now scheduled to be rolled out in late 2020. However, Hironori Kamezawa, the Pre

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is leading a 22 member research consortium to develop standards around security token management. MUFG is one of Japan’s largest financial group and the fifth-largest bank in the world by assets. The Security Token Research Consortium group includes brokers, dealers, security issuers, with technology companies such as NTT Docomo Inc. and KDDI Corp, the two largest telecommunications companies in Japan. Securitize is the only issuance platform pr