{"id":161826,"date":"2025-11-27T03:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/161826\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T03:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:58:15","slug":"softbank-issues-cumulative-64bn-in-retail-bonds-to-power-ai-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/161826\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank issues cumulative $64bn in retail bonds to power AI ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/softbank\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SoftBank<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Japanese tech giant accounts for over 40% of such floats in home market<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20251126N Son\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">SoftBank Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son is going all-in on artificial intelligence, with retail bonds serving as one funding channel.<\/p>\n<p>YUSUKE YAGI and MOMOKO IMAMURA<\/p>\n<p>November 27, 2025 05:28 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; SoftBank Group is nearing 10 trillion yen ($64 billion) in total bond offerings to individual investors, dominating Japan&#8217;s retail bond market while providing another funding channel for Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son&#8217;s aggressive investment in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SoftBank Japanese tech giant accounts for over 40% of such floats in home market SoftBank Chairman and CEO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[90344,220,90345,218,219,128,90343,61,60,5491,12615,4674,9969,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-161826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-64bn","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-ambitions","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-bonds","14":"tag-cumulative","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-issues","18":"tag-power","19":"tag-retail","20":"tag-softbank","21":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}