Nikko Asset Management and Chocolate Finance Enter into Strategic Partnership
July 24 2025
Nikko Asset Management (Nikko Asset Management Co., Ltd. together with all of its subsidiaries), one of Asia’s largest asset managers with US$234.8 billion in assets under management[1], has entered into a strategic partnership on 24 July with Singapore based “neobank” Chocolate Pte. Ltd., the operator of fintech group “Chocolate Finance”. The partnership gives Nikko Asset Management an equity stake in Chocolate Pte. Ltd. and will support Chocolate Finance’s expansion into Japan and other key markets, and will enable knowledge-sharing between the two companies in the retail investor space.