"Resona" and "Mebuki" Partnership for smartphone app financial services June 26, 6:36

Resona Holdings, a financial giant, and Mebuki Financial Group, which is based in Kita-Kanto, will form a tie-up for financial services using smartphone applications. The plan is to promote the exchange of human resources, and the movement to cooperate with other companies in the digital field is accelerating in the financial industry.

According to the announcement, Resona will improve its self-developed smartphone application that allows you to transfer money and pay utility bills so that it can be used by the Mebuki Group's Joyo Bank and Ashikaga Bank.

In addition, we will jointly develop a tablet terminal system to be used for procedures such as transfer and address change at stores, and plan to promote exchanges of human resources, and will collaborate widely in the digital field.

Both companies are aiming to expand the partnership by improving the application for other regional banks in the future.

For financial services that use smartphone apps, Mizuho Financial Group is affiliated with SoftBank and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group is affiliated with SBI Holdings, a major online finance company.

The financial industry is accelerating to join forces in the digital arena where new services are being developed one after another.