SBI SECURITIES Co., Ltd. (株式会社SBI証券) — Japanese crypto-asset-derivatives transaction operator overview
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FSA registration number: Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau (Kinsho) 第44号 · JVCEA member #1041 · holds only the crypto-asset-derivatives transaction business
1. Corporation / shareholders
- Trade name: 株式会社SBI証券 (SBI SECURITIES Co., Ltd.)
- English name: SBI SECURITIES Co., Ltd.
- Established: 1999年4月26日 (date of trade-name change). The corporate entity originates from the former Osawa Securities and transitioned through ETRADE Securities → SBI ETRADE Securities → the current trade name
- Head-office location: Izumi Garden Tower, 1-chome-6-1号 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 〒106-6001 (the same building as SBI VC Trade)
- Capital: 54,323百万円 (as of 2025年3月31日)
- Number of employees: 997名 (as of 2025年3月31日)
- Shareholder: SBI Holdings, Inc. 100% (TSE Prime, securities code 8473)
Division of business among the crypto-asset-related 3 corporations within the SBI Group (see §4 ):
The comparison below uses each company’s official profile, the JVCEA member list, and the official SBI CFD announcement. It describes business boundaries and does not imply joint sales or customer integration among the entities. ^[Sources: https://www.sbigroup.co.jp/company/group/sbivc.html; https://www.sbigroup.co.jp/company/group/sbifxt.html; https://www.sbigroup.co.jp/company/group/sbisec/; https://jvcea.or.jp/member/; https://www.sbigroup.co.jp/news/pr/2025/0818_15663.html.]
| Corporation | JVCEA # | Main business | Crypto-asset service |
|---|---|---|---|
| SBI VC Trade Co., Ltd. | 1011 | Crypto-asset specialist | spot + derivatives + electronic payment instruments (USDC) |
| SBI FX Trade Co., Ltd. | 1026 | FX specialist | crypto-asset CFD “SBI Bitcoin FX” (BTC/XRP/ETH × 2 currencies = 6 tokens) |
| 株式会社SBI証券 (this article) | 1041 | full-line securities / FX | only crypto-asset CFD trading via the OTC CFD “SBI CFD” (started 2025年8月) |
SBI Securities centers on securities, FX, and commodity futures, and does not handle crypto assets themselves on a spot basis. Crypto assets are positioned as an ancillary business handled as OTC CFDs (financial instruments).
2. License / registration status
The registration number and JVCEA business category are based on SBI Securities’ official company information and the JVCEA member list. ^[Sources: https://www.sbigroup.co.jp/company/group/sbisec/; https://jvcea.or.jp/member/.]
| Business type | Registration number | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Type I Financial Instruments Business | Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau (Kinsho) 第44号 | Stocks, FX, derivatives, etc. |
| Crypto-asset-derivatives transaction business | Same as Kinsho 第44号 (additional-authorization form) | JVCEA Type I #1041 |
- JVCEA member type: Type I (member number 1041)
- Held business categories (JVCEA classification): crypto-asset-derivatives transaction business only (does not hold the crypto-asset exchange business or the electronic-payment-instruments transaction business)
- Associations joined: Japan Securities Dealers Association, Financial Futures Association of Japan, Type II Financial Instruments Firms Association, Japan Investment Advisers Association, Japan STO Association, Japan Virtual and Crypto Assets Exchange Association
3. Handled currencies
It does not offer spot transactions in crypto assets. It offers crypto-asset CFDs as OTC CFDs (SBI CFD):
- The official service announcement dated 2025-08-18 identifies Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Solana (SOL) as crypto-asset CFD examples. Availability changes, so the total CFD product count and peer-first claims are not used as fixed assessments.
4. Scope of business
The company’s main business is securities, FX, and commodity futures. Crypto assets are an ancillary service added in 2025年8月.
The service categories below are based on SBI Securities’ official site and the SBI CFD announcement. Volatile product counts and market rankings have been removed from the table. ^[Sources: https://www.sbisec.co.jp/; https://www.sbigroup.co.jp/news/pr/2025/0818_15663.html.]
| Main service | Overview |
|---|---|
| Stock trading (domestic / foreign) | Trading in domestic and foreign equities |
| Investment trusts | Investment-trust sales and accumulation |
| FX (foreign-exchange margin) | 24-hour trading |
| Exchange CFD (Click Kabu 365) | Nikkei 225, etc. |
| OTC CFD “SBI CFD” | Offers stock-index, commodity, and crypto-asset CFDs in one account. Service started August 25, 2025 |
| NISA account | NISA support |
| iDeCo | Individual-type defined-contribution pension |
Institutional positioning of the crypto-asset CFD (SBI CFD):
- “OTC CFD” is a derivatives transaction under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. It is a contract-for-difference product, not spot crypto assets
- Margin rate for crypto-asset CFDs: 50% of the consideration (the highest level compared with commodities 5% and stock indices 10%)
- Trading hours: crypto-asset CFDs can be traded almost 24 hours, including weekends
Fiat-currency deposit channels: bank transfer, quick deposit via Sumishin SBI Net Bank, Pay-easy, etc. (common with ordinary securities-account deposits)
5. Market share / trading volume
SBI Securities’ securities-account, NISA, and exchange-CFD metrics are not standalone crypto-asset CFD metrics. The SBI CFD materials reviewed on 2026-07-29 contain no company-level crypto-asset CFD figures comparable across firms, so this entry does not infer a market rank or scale. For the regulatory comparison, see Japan VASP derivatives licensing system.
6. History / major incidents
The table below is limited to milestones confirmed in SBI Group company information and the official SBI CFD announcement. The announcement distinguishes the August 22, 2025 account-application opening from the August 25 service launch. ^[Sources: https://www.sbigroup.co.jp/company/group/sbisec/; https://www.sbigroup.co.jp/news/pr/2025/0818_15663.html.]
| Period | Event |
|---|---|
| April 26, 1999 | SBI Securities’ corporate entity established |
| August 18, 2025 | Planned launch of OTC “SBI CFD,” including crypto-asset underlyings, announced |
| August 22, 2025 | SBI CFD account applications opened |
| August 25, 2025 | SBI CFD service launched |
Within the company information and service announcement reviewed above, this review did not identify a statement showing an administrative action or major incident involving SBI CFD. This is not an assertion that no such event exists.
7. Strategic developments
- Crypto-asset CFD entry (2025-08): began offering crypto-asset CFDs in the same SBI CFD account as stock-index and commodity CFDs. These are OTC derivatives under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, not spot crypto-asset exchange services.
- SBI HD’s crypto-asset strategy (general information): SBI Holdings approaches the crypto-asset market with a multi-layered structure of spot (SBI VC Trade), FX/CFD (SBI FX Trade, SBI Securities), stablecoins (SBI VC Trade’s electronic-payment-instruments transaction business), and XRP-related investment (investment in Ripple Labs). SBI HD absorbed BITPoint Japan into SBI VC Trade (2026年4月), consolidating the group’s spot services into SBI VC Trade, while maintaining a structure in which derivatives are dispersed across multiple securities / FX subsidiaries
- Interest in promoting crypto-asset ETFs: the SBI HD group has been actively stepping up industry proposals anticipating the lifting of the ETF ban after the transition of crypto-asset regulation under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, such as publishing the “Proposal toward the Formation, etc. of Crypto-Asset ETFs, etc. in Japan” (2024年10月) (the SBI VC Trade-name press release notes SBI Securities’ registration number in a footnote)
8. Related people
- Representative Director & President: Masato Takamura (髙村 正人) (as of 2025年3月)
- Chairman (de facto leader): Yoshitaka Kitao (北尾 吉孝) (concurrently Representative Director & CEO of SBI Holdings)
- Founding-type role under the predecessor trade name: the SBI Group was established as SoftBank’s financial division in 1999年, then became independent from the SoftBank Group in 2006年
Related
- japan-financial-regulation — Japanese financial regulation as a whole
- jp-exchange-sbi-vc-trade — SBI VC Trade overview (the group’s crypto-asset spot operator, holding the 3-type license)
- japan-stablecoin-regulatory-landscape — related stablecoin system
- jp-trust-type-sc-architecture — related SC system
- japan-bittrade-listing-process — general discussion of the token-listing process
- sbi-securities — JapanFG SBI Securities profile
- btc-spot-etf-japan-impact — BTC spot ETF Japan impact
- jp-vasp-derivative-license-system — JP VASP derivative license system
Sources
- SBI Securities company profile (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- SBI Group SBI Securities corporate-information page (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- JVCEA member list (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- FSA crypto-asset exchange operator registration list Excel (snapshot 令和8年4月1日 = 2026-04-01)
- SBI Securities OTC CFD (SBI CFD) service overview (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- SBI Holdings: Notice of Offering an OTC CFD Service (SBI CFD) Supporting Crypto-Assets, etc. (2025-08-18) (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- SBI Securities press release on achieving a domestic-first 1,500万 accounts (2025-11-25) (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- Yahoo! Search: SBI Securities crypto-asset derivatives / company profile / account-count related (retrieved 2026-05-18)
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