March 7, 2017 SBI Holdings, Inc. (TOKYO: 8473)

SBI Investment Co., Ltd.

Notice Regarding an Investment into Wirex Limited through a Fund

SBI Investment Co., Ltd. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Katsuya Kawashima; hereinafter "SBI Investment"), is a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, Inc. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Yoshitaka Kitao), which conducts investments and management of venture capital funds. SBI Investment hereby announces that it has invested in Wirex Limited (Head office: London, UK, hereinafter "Wirex") through the FinTech Fund.

Wirex is a provider of platforms that allow the customer to use bitcoin and other virtual currencies in Visa and Master card networks across the world. These platforms enable the user to instantly exchange virtual currency for real-money U.S. dollars, euros or UK pounds on an application from Wirex. By loading such legal tender onto the prepaid card, the user can use it in Visa and Master Card networks around the world, including ATMs and member merchants. Wirex's service, already having over 500,000 members in 130 countries across the world, will likely see its users grow further in number, going forward. By the end of the first half of 2017, it will begin to allow users to exchange virtual currency for Japanese yen as well.

In December 2015, SBI Investment established the FinTech Fund (Fund name: FinTech Business Innovation LPS; total commitment amount: JPY 30 billion), which intends to invest in the FinTech field. The FinTech Fund will make aggressive efforts to invest in promising both Japanese and overseas venture companies in the FinTech business fields and support open innovation between the fund investors and the investee companies, with a view to promote introduction and utilization of FinTech-related technologies by the fund investors, while boosting the value of investee companies.

The SBI Group will continuously expand investments in venture companies in the FinTech field by leveraging the knowledge in the online financial services businesses accumulated by itself, as a FinTech pioneer company, and sequentially adopt the leading-edge FinTech technologies in the Group's Financial Services Business.

[Outline of Wirex]

Head office

: 1 Primrose street, London, EC2A 2EX, UK.

Representative

: Pavel Matveev, Dmitry Lazarichev, Founder CEO

Business

: Providing platforms that allow the customer to use bitcoin and other virtual

currencies in Visa and Master card networks across the world

Establishment

: December 2014

URL

: https://wirexapp.com/ja/

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