Mitsui & Co. Digital Asset Management Launches Business Matching with Hokuyo Bank

Mitsui & Co. Digital Asset Management (the "Company") is pleased to announce that Hokuyo Bank has joined as a business matching partner for its asset management service, "ALTERNA." This partnership represents the first step in collaboration originating from the Company's Hokkaido branch, opened in November 2025, and marks the first instance of a Hokkaido-based financial institution participating as an ALTERNA business matching partner.

Through this partnership, the Company will begin introducing ALTERNA to individual customers of Hokuyo Bank through the bank's channels. As a means of medium- to long-term asset formation utilizing digital securities, the Company will provide Hokkaido customers with investment opportunities in funds backed by real estate and other assets offered by ALTERNA.

In the future, the Company plans to expand its community-rooted initiatives, such as the structuring and sales collaboration of digital securities utilizing real estate and infrastructure within Hokkaido.

Hokuyo Bank operates under the management philosophy of "thoroughly prioritizing customers, solving diverse issues, and opening up the future of Hokkaido," aiming to make Hokkaido the most attractive and happiest region in Japan. Meanwhile, the Company promotes the concept of "a new choice, neither savings nor stocks," expanding investment opportunities in stable assets such as large-scale urban real estate and infrastructure—previously limited to institutional investors—to individual investors.

By combining Hokuyo Bank's strong customer base and community-focused financial services in Hokkaido with the Company's new asset management service utilizing digital securities, both companies aim to accelerate medium- to long-term asset formation for the people of Hokkaido and contribute to the revitalization of the Hokkaido economy.