🇯🇵 NEW: Japan’s Mizuho, MUFG and SMBC announce completion of a joint yen stablecoin pilot testing cross-border payments for Mitsubishi…

First reported Oct 16, 2026, 09:23 UTC

Source reports

🇯🇵 NEW: Japan’s Mizuho, MUFG and SMBC announce completion of a joint yen stablecoin pilot testing cross-border payments for Mitsubishi Corporation. — @Cointelegraph (X), Oct 16, 2026, 09:23 UTC
BREAKING: 🇯🇵 Japan’s three largest banks completed their first cross-border stablecoin payment test. MASSIVE! 🚀 — @cryptorover (X), Oct 16, 2026, 09:43 UTC
LATEST: 🇯🇵 Japanese megabanks SMBC, Mizuho, and MUFG completed a proof-of-concept for jointly issuing a yen stablecoin and using it for cross-border payments. — @CoinMarketCap (X), Oct 16, 2026, 19:25 UTC

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