May 24, 2017

SBI Holdings, Inc. (TOKYO: 8473)

SBI Investment Co., Ltd.

Notice Regarding an Investment into R3 HOLDCO LLC, a U.S. FinTech Company

SBI Investment Co., Ltd. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Katsuya Kawashima; hereinafter "SBI Investment"), a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, Inc. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Yoshitaka Kitao; hereinafter "SBI Holdings"), which conducts investments and management of venture capital funds, hereby announces that it has invested in R3 HOLDCO LLC (Head office: NY, U.S.; hereinafter "R3") through its funds, including the FinTech Fund and others. Upon the investment, the SBI Group has become R3's largest outside shareholder.

R3 is a U.S. startup company that excels in distributed ledger technology (DLT), and is working on a global project towards establishing a distributed ledger platform on a global standard in the financial industry. The consortium led by R3 currently consists of over 80 leading financial institutions around the world (as of May 23, 2017). Some of the financial institutions in the consortium are promoting the application of DLT in financial services, and have already started performing demonstration experiments to verify the feasibility of such technology.

As was announced in March 2016, SBI Holdings joined in the consortium led by R3 as the first financial group in the world, whose main channel is the Internet, and has acquired information about DLT and conducted researches regarding the distributed ledger platform. By taking advantage of this investment, the SBI Group will further strengthen cooperation with R3 toward the utilization of DLT.

The SBI Group will continue to further expand investments in promising companies in the FinTech industry, which is expected to grow, by leveraging the knowledge in the online financial services businesses accumulated by itself, as a FinTech pioneer company.

[Outline of R3]

Head office

: 1370 Broadway, Ste 1050 New York, NY 10018

Representative

: David Rutter, CEO

Business

: Management of the DLT consortium and provision of a DLT platform

Establishment

: February 2016

URL

: http://www.r3cev.com/

[Reference]Investors of R3 (Excerpt from the press release of R3)

Banco Bradesco

Itaú Unibanco S.A.

Bangkok Bank

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG)

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Mizuho

Bank of Montreal

Natixis

Bank of New York Mellon

Nomura

Barclays

Nordea Bank

BBVA

OP Cooperative

BNP Paribas

Ping An

B3 (BM&FBOVESPA and Cetip)

Royal Bank of Canada

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

SBI Group

Citi

SEB

Commerzbank

Societe Generale

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Credit Suisse

TD Bank Group

CTBC Financial Holding

Temasek

Daiwa Securities Group

The Bank of Nova Scotia

Danske Bank

Northern Trust

Deutsche Bank

The Royal Bank of Scotland

HSBC

U.S. Bank

ING

UBS AG

Intel Capital

Wells Fargo

Intesa Sanpaolo

Westpac

(Alphabetical order)

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