payment app MoneyTap, co-developed by and financial services giant SBI Holdings, has received from 13 local banks, according to an SBI press release on March 28.
In the announcement, SBI Holdings informs that Kiraboshi Bank, Shinsei Bank and Hokuriku Bank, along with ten other local financial institutions, have joined their project as shareholders.
MoneyTap, which was designed to quickly transfer money via a mobile app using ’s solution xCurrent, will reportedly receive investments from other Japanese financial institutions later this year. According to SBI Holdings, the banks using the solution are going to cooperate to enable domestic bank-to-bank transfers.
As per the press release, the goal of using MoneyTap is to create a remittance infrastructure that will operate 24 hours a day, allowing to send money from their domestic bank to any other institution — domestic or foreign — participating in the project.
In October 2018, and SBI Holdings MoneyTap. The project was initially joined by three Japanese banks – SBI Sumishin Net Bank, Suruga Bank and Resona Bank. However, the announcement stated that MoneyTap will eventually see a consortium of 61 Japanese banks — representative of more than 80 percent of all of ’s banking assets.
Prior to the app’s official launch, SBI Holdings received a license from regulators to handle electronic payments as an “Electronic Settlement Agency Service Provider.”
Remittance solutions designed by are used for both domestic and cross-border interbanking transactions. For instance, Spanish banking group ’s xCurrent for international money transfers in , , the and .
UAE Exchange and payment platform Unimoni are also ’s -based platform to complete real-time transactions to Siam Commercial Bank.
Published at Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:14:53 +0000
