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Sony Life's internal review now confirms ¥56.4mn in insurance-related fraud from 21 customers and ¥124.2mn in separate improper money transfers from 17 customers, and the insurer says the Financial Services Agency has given notice of an on-site inspection while it winds down its exclusive-agency sales channel.
Smaller bond-sale losses at Sony Life and a stake sale still awaiting regulatory sign-off pushed Sony Financial Group's full-year profit outlook from a projected ¥20bn loss to ¥37bn, though the group's preferred earnings gauge stays fixed at ¥110bn because both swing factors are excluded from it.
The number: Sony Bank is putting $40 million (about ¥6.4bn) behind a new wholly owned US trust company, Connectia Trust, National Association, due to open in July 2026, with room to add more capital later and no representative named yet.