Japan's Mizuho Bank Ltd., a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., one of the largest financial services companies in Japan, with total assets of approximately $1.8 trillion in 2017, has confirmed that it is launching a new bank digital currency platform called "J-Coin Pay" next month. J-Coin will be a stablecoin with the value of one of its units fixed at one Japanese Yen (JPY).
