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Nomura

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Nomura is one of the two megabank participants (alongside Mizuho) named in the April 2026 tokenised JGB collateral trial on the Canton Network coordinated with JSCC and Digital Asset. Nomura was previously announced as a participant in the FSA Japan Payment Innovation Project (PIP) sandbox, which is the formal route through which the trial graduates from sandbox to public announcement. Beyond this trial, Nomura's tokenisation activity sits across its securities, asset-management, and digital-asset subsidiaries; the consolidated programme is not publicly disclosed.

Role in tokenisation

  • Nomura has been a PIP sandbox participant alongside Mizuho.
  • Nomura is a megabank counterparty in the tokenised JGB collateral trial on Canton Network.

Recent activity

  • 5 Aug 2026Laser Digital, Nomura's digital-assets subsidiary, made a strategic investment in ZIGChain, a UAE-based Layer 1 blockchain, understood to be in the single-digit millions as of August 2026. The partnership aims to streamline private credit markets across the Gulf States, including Sharia-compliant offerings, and delivers risk framework design and governance for institutional onchain vault products. Nomura's Laser Digital backs ZIGChain for onchain private credit push in UAE
  • 20 Apr 2026Joint announcement with Mizuho, JSCC and Digital Asset of the Canton tokenised JGB collateral trial.

Open questions

  • Nomura's broader tokenisation programme outside this trial (Laser Digital, asset-management tokenisation activity) is not publicly disclosed this period.