Seven & i Holdings said the money has now actually arrived. The retailer confirmed on August 17, 2026 that SoftBank Corp., PayPay Corporation and Mitsui Sumitomo Card Co., Ltd. have completed payment for a third-party allotment of treasury shares first approved by its board on July 31, 2026. That distinction matters: a board resolution is an intention, a payment-completion notice is money actually changing hands.
The numbers are exact. Seven & i disposed of 144,927,534 common shares at ¥2,070 per share, raising ¥299,999,995,380, a fraction short of ¥300.0bn. The three allottees split the placement evenly: SoftBank, PayPay and Mitsui Sumitomo Card each received 48,309,178 shares.
| Recipient | Shares Allotted |
|---|---|
| SoftBank Corp. | 48,309,178 |
| PayPay Corporation | 48,309,178 |
| Mitsui Sumitomo Card Co., Ltd. | 48,309,178 |
The filing frames the three companies collectively as the counterparties to a capital-and-business alliance Seven & i announced on July 31, 2026, though the payment-completion notice itself does not restate the commercial terms of that alliance, only that the shares have now changed hands. Readers looking for what SoftBank, PayPay and Mitsui Sumitomo Card intend to do with a combined stake in Seven & i will need to look at that earlier alliance announcement; this notice confirms the financing closed, not what the three partners plan to build with it.
Seven & i's treasury share count now stands at 50,222,254 following the disposal, a figure the company says also reflects a separate ToSTNeT-3 off-market buyback it disclosed the same day as the original board resolution. That buyback and this allotment moved in opposite directions on the same treasury-stock ledger: one added shares to the treasury pool, the other removed shares from it to hand to the three partner companies.
What the notice does not do is quantify the payoff. Completion confirms that Seven & i has ¥300.0bn in fresh capital and that SoftBank, PayPay and Mitsui Sumitomo Card now hold a direct equity stake in the group. It says nothing about revenue synergies, loyalty-program integration, or payments volume the alliance is meant to generate. That commercial case, if and when it shows up in results, will need its own disclosure.