
Mitsubishi Corporation, one of Japan’s largest trading and industrial companies, has adopted JPMorgan’s Kinexys blockchain network for intragroup U.S. dollar cash management across its global subsidiaries.
By leveraging the blockchain deposit accounts (BDAs) feature on JPMorgan’s Kinexys Digital Payments Network, Mitsubishi’s treasury team will be able to automatically move funds in real time between subsidiaries, including those in key financial centers such as Singapore, London, and New York, without the delays typically associated with traditional finance.
According to Kazuyoshi Kawakami, treasurer at Mitsubishi Corporation, the goal of this initiative is to strengthen the company’s liquidity management and resilience across its subsidiaries.
“Our liquidity management is a core source of credit strength. As we develop and operate businesses globally across a wide range of industries, it is essential that funds raised in the market and cash generated through our operations can be allocated efficiently throughout our consolidated group,” Kawakami said.
“As we pursue stable and sustainable growth through investment, trading, and other business activities, we believe our liquidity management must continue to evolve. Instant and programmable payments can support this while also strengthening our resilience during periods of market stress. We expect this initiative to represent an important step in enhancing our liquidity management framework.”
In summary, Mitsubishi Corporation is adopting JPMorgan’s Kinexys Digital Payments Network for its global subsidiaries. Because Kinexys operates automatically based on predefined conditions, Mitsubishi’s treasury team will be able to move funds in real time across subsidiaries whenever needed, 24/7, without relying on manual intervention or traditional banking networks that can involve delays.
Kinexys is an enterprise blockchain built by America’s largest bank, J.P. Morgan. It was designed to modernize how money, assets, and financial information move across institutional finance.
The Kinexys blockchain comprises three main components:
1. Kinexys Digital Payments: A permissioned blockchain payments rail and deposit account ledger that enables near real-time transfers of tokenized deposits between institutional clients.
2. Kinexys Digital Assets: A tokenization platform that brings financial assets (including funds, collateral, debt, and repo instruments) on-chain.
3. Kinexys Liink: A scalable, permissioned network for exchanging payment-related information across institutions.
Since its launch in November 2024, Kinexys has recorded several notable milestones, including processing more than $1.5 trillion in cumulative value and handling approximately $5–7 billion in transactions per day. J.P. Morgan has indicated plans to increase this daily transaction volume to more than $10 billion.
Kinexys is also being used by several high-profile institutional clients, including Siemens, BlackRock, Qatar National Bank, and BMW.