Monex, Inc. announced the start of a business alliance with NTT DOCOMO, Inc. effective January 4, 2024. On October 4, 2023, NTT DOCOMO, Monex Group, Inc. (hereinafter, Monex Group), and Monex concluded a capital and business alliance agreement. The aim of the alliance is to provide customers the most innovative asset building services by bringing together the strengths of NTT DOCOMO's customer base and business operations with Monex's customer base, business operations, and long-held desire to contribute to customer asset-building efforts.

Now with the completion of necessary preliminary procedures, the companies are able to announce specific details of the capital and business alliance agreement. Current and future situation: With the start of the new NISA program, NTT DOCOMO and Monex are working to reinforce links between their respective services, such as the hugely popular periodic purchasing plan by using d CARD credit card, as well as d POINT, d-Barai®, d CARD®, d-Account®, and other NTT DOCOMO services. In addition to d POINT point-rebate programs based on transactions, balances, and new account openings, the company is considering ways to enable customers to deposit and withdraw funds as well as to periodically purchase financial products using d-Barai® in order to make it easier and more convenient for NTT DOCOMO service users to increase their assets.

Furthermore, through the d-Barai® app, which has had 52.6 million downloads, the company plan to provide asset building services for beginners. With personalized information as well as an ongoing selection of products that address the needs of users, particularly beginners, the company will support steady asset building. As the first phase of collaboration, both companies will begin offering content related to asset building on the respective owned media platforms and at DOCOMO shops.