A wealth-focused show host has highlighted a rare public intervention from one of Japan’s most powerful finance executives, who has forecast that XRP will become “very expensive” and openly pressed the U.S. Senate to pass digital asset legislation his firm views as critical to its global plans.
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The comments signal not just optimism on XRP’s price, but an institutional roadmap for how Asian capital will move once U.S. rules are in place.
Japan’s SBI Boss Ties XRP Strategy To Regulatory Clarity
According to Dr. Kamilah Stevenson, the CEO of SBI Holdings — parent of Japan’s largest online brokerage — recently made two notable on-record statements. First, the CEO said he expects XRP to become “very expensive.”
Second, and more unusual, he publicly urged the U.S. Senate to pass the so‑called Clarity Act “immediately,” saying SBI’s institutional expansion for digital asset settlement across Asia depends on U.S. regulatory clarity to scale globally.
Kamilah Stevenson stresses that this is not a casual market take. SBI controls SBI Securities (Japan’s largest online brokerage), SBI Sumishin Net Bank, and SBI Remit, a cross‑border payments platform serving more than 44 million Japanese consumers.
SBI Remit, the YouTube video notes, already runs directly on the XRP Ledger for international settlement, with reported cost savings of around 60% and settlement times under five seconds.
SBI is also described as a strategic equity shareholder in Ripple and co-owner of SBI Ripple Asia, the joint venture intended to push Ripple-based corridors across the Asia-Pacific banking system.
In that context, the CEO’s comments are framed as a “formally approved corporate position” that has likely gone through investor relations and legal review, rather than an off-the-cuff opinion.
U.S. Architecture Quietly Taking Shape Around Ripple
Ultimately, Dr. Kamilah Stevenson links the Japanese pressure campaign to parallel developments in the United States.
Ripple’s national trust bank charter went live with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on April 1, bringing its RLUSD product “inside the federal banking perimeter.”
She also points to ongoing work involving firms like Neuberger Berman, JPMorgan, Mastercard, ONDO Finance and Ripple around what is described as a “unified ledger” stack.
Taken together, this indicates both the U.S. and Japan are building out complementary infrastructure, with one “load‑bearing brick” still missing: clear U.S. legislation.
If that regulatory green light arrives, the institutional rails for XRP-powered settlement in Asia may already be in place.
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The host says SBI uses the XRP Ledger via SBI Remit for cross-border payments, holds strategic equity in Ripple, and runs the SBI Ripple Asia joint venture.
No specific price target was mentioned in the video, only that he expects XRP to become “very expensive.”
SBI sees U.S. regulatory clarity as necessary to scale its digital asset settlement operations globally, even though it is based in Japan.
