MINKABU THE INFONOID, Inc.

SBI Holdings announced on the 17th that it will make internet-related company Livedoor a wholly owned subsidiary. It will acquire all of Livedoor's shares from parent company Minkabu The Infonoid for about 7.5 billion yen. SBI Chairman and President Yoshitaka Kitao and Takafumi Horie, who led Livedoor, once clashed in the battle for Nippon Broadcasting System shares, so the two have now come together as a group, transcending their past feud. SBI will strengthen its media business by leveraging Livedoor's assets, including its news sites in Japan and overseas. Minkabu will also form a capital alliance with NTT Data, and the three companies including SBI will consider new services in the financial sector, aiming to become a financial information platformer originating in Japan.

Minkabu The Infonoid announced on the 17th that it will form a capital and business alliance with NTT Data and sign a three-party business partnership agreement with NTT Data and SBI Holdings. Minkabu shareholders will sell their shares to NTT Data, giving NTT Data more than 16% of Minkabu's voting rights. Meanwhile, Minkabu will sell all shares in its consolidated subsidiary Livedoor to SBI Holdings, using the gain to fully repay the group's borrowings, and will record about 3 billion yen as an extraordinary profit in its consolidated results for the fiscal year ending March 2027. SBI will become Minkabu's second-largest shareholder after NTT Data, holding just over 8% of its voting rights. Through the alliance, the three companies aim to combine the customer bases and financial business expertise of NTT Data and the SBI Group with Minkabu's financial data content and its touchpoints with individual investors to create and roll out new financial services.