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The online banking limb of Sony Financial Group envisages the stablecoin being utilized to wage for games and anime.
Updated Dec 1, 2025, 11:59 a.m. Published Dec 1, 2025, 11:58 a.m.
Sony Bank plans to contented a stablecoin successful the U.S. arsenic aboriginal arsenic the fiscal twelvemonth 2026, the Nikkei reported connected Monday.
The online banking limb of Sony Financial Group, which was spun retired of the electronics elephantine this year, envisages the USD-pegged stablecoin being utilized to wage for games and anime, according to the report.
Customers mostly usage recognition cards to implicit specified transactions astatine present, truthful Sony whitethorn look to beforehand stablecoin payments done the little fees they enable.
Sony Bank applied for a banking licence successful the U.S. successful October and plans to found a subsidiary to grip the issuance of a stablecoin, seeking to seizure the accidental from the enlargement of this assemblage successful the past year.
The U.S. passed the GENIUS enactment into instrumentality successful July, establishing a regulatory model for the issuance and usage of USD-backed stablecoins.
Sony Bank did not respond to CoinDesk's petition for further comment.
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