Monex Group
About
Innovating your financial journey with trust and transparency.
MONEX represents a leap forward in finance, founded in 1999 by Oki Matsumoto and Sony to build a true financial infrastructure for individuals. It evolved through strategic mergers to become Monex Group, offering integrated, world-class online financial services. Focused on empowering individual investors, MONEX embodies innovation in providing comprehensive brokerage solutions and contributing to society.
Use Cases
Individual Investor Trading Platform
Provides a stable, original online brokerage platform for individual investors to trade stocks day and night including margin trading and IPO participation.
Mutual Fund and Alternative Investment Access
Enables users to invest in a wide variety of mutual funds and alternativeinvestment products with expert origination and distribution services.
Foreign Exchange and Fixed Income Services
Offers advanced FX trading services and access to fixed income products likeWorld Bank Notes for portfolio diversification.
Cryptocurrency and Digital Asset Trading
Supports cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 business services for users interestedin digital asset investment and trading.
Key Features
Yen-Pegged Stablecoin Initiative
- Monex Group is considering issuing a yen-pegged stablecoin in Japan.
- The stablecoin would be backed by assets such as Japanese government bonds.
- The stablecoin would be redeemable 1:1 with yen.
- The stablecoin is expected to be used for purposes such as internationalremittances and corporate settlements.
- Monex plans to leverage its ownership of local crypto exchange Coincheck andits Monex securities brokerage to expand the initiative.
European Crypto Expansion
- Monex is considering acquiring European crypto-related companies.
- Final negotiations for the acquisition of candidate European crypto companiesare reportedly underway.
- This would further expand the Monex Group's Western presence.
- Monex Group subsidiary Coincheck Group, Coincheck's parent company, had itspublic debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange at the end of last year.
- Monex Crypto Bank, Inc. is engaged in research, study, design, development andconsultation of cryptocurrency and block chain services.
(Founder)
Oki Matsumoto
(Founding Member)
Takashi Oyagi
Website
monexgroup.jp/en
2.29M
verified accounts fiscal 2025
¥337.5B
marketplace trading volume fiscal 2025
