🇯🇵 SBI Owns Bitbank Now. XRP Holders Should Notice SBI Holdings completed its $295M acquisition of Bitbank on October 1. The $XRP angle is the interesting part. 🔵 SBI → Ripple's closest institutional partner in Asia for years, an early Ripple shareholder, with remittance businesses built on Ripple tech 🟢 Bitbank → for a long time one of the busiest XRP/JPY venues in Japan 🟣 SBI VC Trade → SBI's own exchange, already holding DMM Bitcoin's former customers Put together, the most XRP-friendly financial group in Japan now controls two of the country's main fiat on-ramps for it. What this doesn't mean: no new demand for $XRP tomorrow. Bitbank keeps the same CEO, same service, same listings. What it does mean: when Japan moves crypto under securities law and cuts the tax rate from up to 55% to ~20%, the group with the most Ripple ties will be standing at both doors. #XRP #XRPEFT #BTC Price Analysis#