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SBI Holdings Draws Down Its ¥800bn Bond Shelf Twice in One Day

SBI Holdings filed for a ¥170bn unsecured note and a separate ¥50bn dual-tranche bond on the same day, both charged against one ¥800bn shelf registration that still shows ¥610bn unclaimed while both payments await settlement.

Jul 15, 20262 min readSBI Holdings, Inc.8473
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SBI Holdings, Inc. filed two separate shelf registration supplements with Japan's Kanto Local Finance Bureau on July 15, 2026, each drawing on the same ¥800bn corporate bond shelf the group registered under the number 7-Kanto1. That shelf runs from October 31, 2025 through October 30, 2027, and Tuesday's pair of filings were the fourth and fifth draws against it since the start of the year.

The larger of the two supplements registers a ¥170bn unsecured bond, listed as SBI's 48th such issue and carrying a covenant that limits its ranking to parity with the company's other outstanding bonds. Payment on the note is due July 29, 2026, and the filing states that as of July 15 it had not yet settled.

A second, separately filed supplement submitted the same day splits ¥50bn between two shorter series: a three-year 49th unsecured bond worth ¥25bn and a five-year 50th unsecured bond, also worth ¥25bn.

SBI Holdings' July 15 Bond Supplements
Amounts and tenors as stated on the July 15, 2026 shelf registration supplement cover pages.
SeriesAmountTenorStatus
48th Unsecured Bond¥170bnPayment due July 29, 2026; not yet settled
49th Unsecured Bond¥25bn3-yearFiled July 15, 2026
50th Unsecured Bond¥25bn5-yearFiled July 15, 2026

Both cover pages report the same running total for the shelf. Before this week's filings, SBI had drawn ¥190bn against the ¥800bn program across three earlier tranches this year: ¥160bn on January 9, ¥10bn on March 10 and ¥20bn on May 27, leaving ¥610bn of registered capacity. That ¥610bn figure appears unchanged on both of Tuesday's cover pages because neither the ¥170bn nor the ¥50bn tranche had finished settling by the filing date.

The cover pages disclose series names, amounts and tenors, the minimum a shelf supplement must state. What they leave for the payment date itself to confirm is whether the ¥170bn note settles on schedule July 29, and whether SBI's next filing shows the ¥610bn balance finally move.