SMBC Group
drives social value
through
digital innovation
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.
LATEST
Design Team Aims to Create the Most Preferred Financial Group Through the Power of Design
- Customer-centric thinking
- Becoming a designer―at a megabank!
- Proving the power of design with future-facing proposals
- Growing Group fans and making SMBC an innovation leader
GFTN Group CEO Sopnendu Mohanty x SMBC Group’s Akio Isowa: How AI is Transforming the Future of Finance (GFTN Forum Japan 2025 Report)
- Japan’s biggest global fintech event
- How genAI is transforming the future of finance
- Risks and returns: The role of financial institutions
- The genAI-powered future: Unlocking borders
Ciconia Bioventures—Revolutionizing Japan’s Drug Discovery Ecosystem in the Quest for Global Leadership
- The drug candidate gap in Japan’s discovery ecosystem
- Comprehensive startup support includes evaluation and incubation
- Joint investment from three companies with a shared determination to completely revolutionize the industry
- Assessing drug candidates toward the first spinout within two years
- To deliver new ‘made-in-Japan’ treatments as the ace in the hole for ecosystem innovation
Exploring Japanese Cybersecurity with SMBC CyberFront CEO Yasunori Aoki Sprinting from new grad to CEO in 11 years, what’s his vision for the future?
- From corporate sales to cybersecurity
- Gaining cutting-edge cybersecurity knowhow at a US grad school
- From overseas postgrad study to CEO after just 11 years in the workforce
- Collaborating to strengthen Japan’s cybersecurity
Creating Strong Organizations: A Dialogue Between Former Japan Rugby Representative Toshiaki Hirose and Career Changers at SMBC
- Reasons behind starting a company and diving into new career
- My post-rugby thought: What can a former athlete do?
- How to unite members with diverse backgrounds
- At times of anxiety, we look at what we’ve built
- What it takes to keep trying