{"id":34125,"date":"2020-12-28T21:38:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T19:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34125"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:12:53","slug":"japanese-financial-giant-sbi-holdings-backs-ripple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/japanese-financial-giant-sbi-holdings-backs-ripple\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings backs Ripple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>XRP is not a security under Japanese law, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbigroup.co.jp\/news\/2020\/1228_12272.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u0443\u0442\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0436\u0434\u0430\u044e\u0442<\/a> in SBI Holdings. The token&#8217;s price drop amid the SEC&#8217;s lawsuit against Ripple had little to no negative effect on the business of the Japanese financial conglomerate \u2014 a partner of the fintech startup.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;XRP is a &#8216;cryptocurrency asset&#8217; under the Funds Settlement Act. The token does not fall under the definition of &#8216;security&#8217; under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>SBI Holdings noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sec-files-suit-against-ripple\">the SEC lawsuit<\/a> will not affect XRP&#8217;s status in Japan, and the payment app based on Ripple&#8217;s technology will continue to operate, as planned, regardless of whether this token is used in it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;SBI Holdings will continue to actively support Ripple&#8217;s activities in Japan and abroad,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ripple and SBI Holdings formed a partnership in 2016, creating the joint venture SBI Ripple Asia. In October this year the fintech startup <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ripple-to-back-sbi-holdings-partnership-with-investment\">bolstered the cooperation<\/a> with investments of an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier B2C2 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/otc-platform-b2c2-halts-xrp-trading-for-u-s-residents\">suspended trading<\/a> XRP for US clients. Two weeks earlier SBI Holdings <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/japanese-banking-giant-sbi-holdings-acquires-otc-cryptocurrency-platform-b2c2\">became the owner<\/a> of this over-the-counter (OTC) platform oriented to institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XRP is not a security under Japanese law, according to SBI Holdings. The token&#8217;s price drop amid the SEC&#8217;s lawsuit against Ripple had little to no negative effect on the business of the Japanese financial conglomerate \u2014 a partner of the fintech startup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[112,1847],"class_list":["post-34125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ripple","tag-sbi-holdings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34127,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34125\/revisions\/34127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}