4. Taking part in ブックメーカー野球 digital revolution

In ブックメーカー野球 2010s, a new breed of financial services based on information technology—known as financial technology (fintech)—arose, driven by ブックメーカー野球 rapid progress of ブックメーカー野球 digital revolution. SMFG saw in this trend a significant opportunity to create new businesses and improve convenience and productivity. ブックメーカー野球 company began from ブックメーカー野球 initial stage of ブックメーカー野球 digital revolution to carry out various programs to develop digital technology-enabled new businesses by using open innovation platforms as well as to digitize its financial operations.

In October 2015, each of SMFG and SMBC set up an IT Innovation Department to serve as SMBC Group’s innovation hubs. Then, in September 2017, ブックメーカー野球 Group launched an open innovation center named hoops link Tokyo in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, for ブックメーカー野球 purpose of facilitating innovative activities by utilizing external technologies and ideas.

Meanwhile, ブックメーカー野球 Group invested substantially in digital platform development. Its major use was for providing biometric authentication (Polarify), electronic contract (SMBC CLOUDSIGN), and other digital service options, while offering unconventional services at ブックメーカー野球 same time. Also, ブックメーカー野球 corporate digital platform PlariTown was rolled out in August 2020, for ブックメーカー野球 purpose of supporting digital transformation (DX) of mid-tier corporate and small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers.

In April 2016, noting ブックメーカー野球 need to raise ブックメーカー野球 digital literacy of ブックメーカー野球 entire Group workforce in order to deal with issues related to digitization-driven business model transformation, SMFG, SMBC and Japan Research Institute jointly formedSMFG IT University, an in-house IT learning & training institution, which was relaunched in April 2019 as ブックメーカー野球 Digital University.