Digital innovation is at the heart of SMBC Group’s business strategies. From enhancing customer convenience, improving our productivity and upgrading infrastructure, to creating new business opportunities, we innovate solutions that answer to the evolving needs of the people around us.
Through active engagement with partners and the establishment of our innovation centers across the world, we aim to employ digital technology in meaningful ways to make sustainability a reality.

At “DX-link”, we will provide information such as SMBC Group’s vision for digital transformation, our digital solutions for corporate customers, initiatives with partner companies, and the latest digital trends with an ambition to make “DX-link” a place where various information, services, and companies can cross over the boundaries of industries and regions.

SMBC Group’s digital strategy has two directions: “Beyond & Connect” and “Empower Innovation,” and we aim to “evolve into a global digital solution provider that also creates social value by creating new businesses on the basis of the trust held in SMBC Group.”
Through digital’s power to transcend and connect beyond boundaries we will work with a variety of partners to provide solutions that transcend business categories, companies, regions, etc., to further improve customer convenience and create and nurture businesses that will serve as the foundation of SMBC Group in the future.
In doing business, it is necessary to look at the state of global digitalization, including in emerging economies, in the context of a complex and rapidly changing environment involving a variety of events, such as the advance of technological innovation, demographic change, shifting values, and the rise of geopolitical risk. In order to respond to our customers’ ever-changing needs amid a transforming business environment, we will pivot the direction of our businesses according to the situation, transforming our business models to fit current trends.
The creation of new businesses requires that we strengthen our framework for accelerating innovation – we entrusted this aspiration into the word, “Empower Innovation”. We will also accelerate the creation of systems to generate new seed businesses both within and without the company, by continuing our efforts to transform the company culture through initiatives such as “Producing new CEOs”, together with the development of functions for the speedy creation of new businesses, such as enhancement of investment arm for open innovation.

SMBC Group will contribute to the realization of “Fulfilled Growth” in our society by leading the resolution of social issues and the creation of economic growth based on the philosophy of creating social value that has been passed on from our forebears at Mitsui and Sumitomo.
SMBC will drive digital initiatives so that we can create new value that will lead to tomorrow together with you.