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This entry sits under payment-firms INDEX (its domain route). Read it against Western Union Japan and Wise Payments Japan for peer / contrast (cross-border remittance), and against the FSA plus the funds-transfer vs prepaid boundary for the supervisory / system boundary.

TL;DR

SBI Remit Co., Ltd. is the international remittance business company of the SBI group, a type-II funds-transfer operator registered with the FSA (type-II funds-transfer operator under 資金決済法). It registered upon the entry into force of the Payment Services Act in 2010 年, and started business from small-value international remittances of 100 万円or less per 1 transaction. Through partnerships with MoneyGram and others, it has a remittance network covering more than 220 countries and regions worldwide. It carries high importance for remittances aimed at foreign residents and migrant workers, and for its connection with regional financial institutions and banking-agency business.

1. License / group boundary

2. Operating model

SBI Remit provides Japan-originated international remittances, centered on the usage scenarios of immigrants and resident foreigners. Its distinctive feature is expanding its footprint through partnerships with banks and regional financial institutions (e.g., SBI Shinsei Bank, tie-ups with regional banks), which makes it useful for tracking bank-fintech remittance coordination under ISO 20022 and AML/CFT pressure. Because it is grounded in the type-II funds-transfer framework (small-value remittance), it can be contrasted with the agent-network-centric Western Union and the digital-first Wise.

3. Why this page matters

• Pins down an independent licensed funds-transfer entity that is not explained on SBI’s banking, securities, crypto-asset, or regional-bank pages.
• Provides a concrete example of the license route of the type-II funds-transfer business (small-value remittance).
• Serves as a peer anchor for the cross-border remittance arms of major domestic FG groups.

Related

• payment-firms INDEX
• SBI Holdings
• SBI Shinsei Bank
• Western Union Japan
• Wise Payments Japan
• FinWiki index

Sources

• SBI Remit corporate profile: https://www.remit.co.jp/corporate/corporate_profile/
• SBI Holdings: SBIレミット group-company page: https://www.sbigroup.co.jp/company/group/sbiremit.html
• FSA funds-transfer service provider list (shikin_idou.pdf): https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/menkyoj/shikin_idou.pdf

[!info] Verification status confidence: likely. The type-II funds-transfer business (関東財務局長 第00008号), the SBI group, and partnerships with MoneyGram and others are public facts. Specific figures such as the number of countries to which remittance is possible are based on public disclosure and may change.