MUFG Bank Adopts Databricks as Its Next-Generation Data and AI Platform

Tokyo, Japan, April 25, 2025 — Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced that  MUFG Bank, Ltd. (“MUFG Bank”), a leading global financial services group and one of the largest banks in Japan, has selected Databricks as its next-generation data and AI platform. MUFG Bank aims to consolidate AI model development platforms scattered across the company and use the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform as a foundation for developing new AI applications.

From L to R: Toshiki Ochi, Member of the Board of Directors, Managing Executive Officer, CIO, MUFG Bank, and Toshifumi Sasa, VP and Country Manager for Databricks Japan

As part of its medium-term business plan, MUFG Bank has committed to enhancing its AI capabilities and data infrastructure to achieve data-driven management and improve productivity and customer value. This commitment falls under the theme “Accelerate Transformation & Innovation,” which is one of the plan's three pillars.

The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform will be used to integrate a vast amount of data within MUFG Bank and facilitate the improved productivity of its 30,000 employees and customer value through advanced data analytics and the use of AI. The platform will play an important role in improving fraud detection, strengthening risk management, streamlining and automating operations, marketing, and the creation of new business opportunities. 

Through the platform, MUFG Bank will be able to provide complete support from data processing and analytics to AI model development, as well as the development of AI agent systems. This is expected to improve the AI team’s productivity, shorten project durations, and enable faster deployment of new business applications.

Additionally, Databricks’ robust governance capabilities enable MUFG Bank to comply with stringent security standards and compliance requirements, providing a controlled environment for effective data utilization.

“We are pleased to announce we have adopted Databricks, a world leader in data and AI, for MUFG Bank’s next-generation AI platform. By linking the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform with our own in-house generative AI applications, our ability to perform data analysis utilizing generative AI will become more efficient than ever before. Through this partnership, we hope to strengthen the AI and data infrastructure set out in our medium-term management plan, and accelerate the realization of data-driven management and further enhance customer value,” said Toshiki Ochi, Member of the Board of Directors, Managing Executive Officer, CIO, MUFG Bank.

“We are excited that MUFG Bank has selected the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform as its data analytics infrastructure. Through this collaboration, we will build data intelligence — AI tailored to their unique data to solve domain-specific challenges — and deliver added business value through use cases including fraud detection, marketing, creation of new business opportunities, as well as streamlining and automating operations for greater efficiency," said Toshifumi Sasa, VP and Country Manager for Databricks Japan.

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Block, Comcast, Condé Nast, Rivian, Shell and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to take control of their data and put it to work with AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on X, LinkedIn and Facebook.

About MUFG Bank

MUFG Bank is a consolidated subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG), one of the world's leading financial groups. As social and economic structures change dramatically and the services required of financial institutions become more diverse and complex than ever before, MUFG Bank is using AI and data to improve the customer experience and streamline internal operations. Through these activities, MUFG Bank aims to continue taking on challenges and innovating together with customers and society at large, and to realize MUFG's purpose of “Empowering a brighter future.”