With the spread of financial services utilizing IT, there is a growing movement among major trading companies to strengthen the financial field, such as using digital technology to securitize assets on hand and sell them to investors.

Of these, Mitsui will launch a new service utilizing electronic securities called "digital securities" from December through a subsidiary engaged in the financial business.



As the first step, we will securitize the distribution warehouses of group companies and solicit funds from individual investors.



Digital securities use a technology called "blockchain" that stores transaction records in a distributed manner on the Internet, which makes it possible to reduce sales and management costs and reduce the selling price per unit. Receives a portion of the warehouse usage fee as a dividend.



On the other hand, the company has a mechanism to earn commission income, and plans to digitally securitize assets of 100 billion yen, such as renewable energy power generation facilities, within three years.

Takashi Ueno, President of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Digital Asset Management, said, "We would like to integrate IT and finance and combine the power of a general trading company with various assets to attract a wide range of investments and develop into a large business."



Among major trading companies, ITOCHU announced last month that it will invest in a venture company in Tokyo, which is engaged in businesses such as cashless payments, and there is a growing movement to strengthen the financial field.