{"id":665725,"date":"2026-10-02T15:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=852536"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:35:24","slug":"ripple-partner-sbi-completes-takeover-of-japanese-exchange-bitbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/ripple-partner-sbi-completes-takeover-of-japanese-exchange-bitbank\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripple Partner SBI Completes Takeover of Japanese Exchange Bitbank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ripple-and-sbi-holdings-logos-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ripple and SBI holdings logos side by side\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>SBI Holdings has taken full ownership of Bitbank on Oct. 1, folding one of Japan&#8217;s busiest XRP markets into one of Ripple&#8217;s oldest partners in Asia. The Deal The final share transfer went through on Oct. 1, making Bitbank a wholly owned subsidiary of SBI. The price tag was approximately $290 million (\u00a546.7 billion), the [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SBI Holdings has taken full ownership of Bitbank on Oct. 1, folding one of Japan&#8217;s busiest XRP markets into one of Ripple&#8217;s oldest partners in Asia. The Deal The final share transfer went through on Oct. 1, making Bitbank a wholly owned subsidiary of SBI. The price tag was approximately $290 million (\u00a546.7 billion), the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":665726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-665725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}