Systematizing Essential Financial Literacy for the Workforce: Bringing a Proven Program with 2.8 Million Participants to Corporate Training

learningBOX, Inc. has announced that starting July 2026, it will offer SMBC Group Financial and Economic Education, a curriculum developed by SMBC Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Koto-ku, Tokyo; President and Representative Director: Terumasa Takahashi; hereinafter SMBCCF)—as part of its learningBOX ON content library on the learningBOX e-learning platform.
This launch is made possible through a strategic partnership with Change Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and President/Executive Officer: Tomohiro Noda; hereinafter Change). Through this collaboration, SMBCCF’s high-quality educational materials, originally designed for academic institutions, have been restructured into an e-learning format optimized specifically for corporate training.

The Corporate Imperative for Financial and Economic Education Today
As we navigate an era of extended life expectancy, strategic asset building and life planning have become increasingly critical. Concurrently, social issues such as sophisticated financial scams have intensified. While financial education was integrated into high school curriculums in 2022, equipping the current workforce with accurate financial knowledge remains an urgent priority.
Improving employees' financial literacy is no longer just an optional workplace perk. Modern enterprises increasingly recognize its value in boosting workplace performance by ensuring lifestyle stability, as well as strengthening compliance by preventing financial liabilities before they occur. Against this backdrop, learningBOX has aligned with SMBCCF, a leader in financial education, and Change, an expert in digital transformation (DX) human resource development, to deliver this comprehensive program.

Key Features of SMBC Group Financial and Economic Education

The SMBC Group Financial and Economic Education program delivers specialized content designed to help the next generation of professionals and local communities build robust financial knowledge and sound economic judgment. (Japanese only)

1. The Credibility of 2.8 Million Participants via SMBC Consumer Finance
   The curriculum is built upon a highly successful educational program that encapsulates the deep expertise of the SMBC Group, a leader in the financial sector. It distills complex technical jargon into accessible, clear explanations, allowing beginners to build a strong foundation from the ground up.
   
2. Active Learning Mechanisms to Ensure Long-Term Retention
   Moving beyond passive content consumption, the course complements its 80 video lectures with 174 quizzes and quick comprehension checks embedded throughout the chapters. By emphasizing continuous active recall rather than just video viewing, the program ensures that users firmly retain financial literacy that is directly applicable to their professional and personal lives.
   
3. Comprehensive Coverage of Real-World Themes Faced by Today's Professionals
   The curriculum comprehensively addresses immediately actionable topics, ranging from lifestyle design such as navigating payslips and social insurance systems to strategic asset building, including NISA and iDeCo, and financial risk management such as identifying modern scams originating on social media.

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■ Course Overview: Instruction Manual for Money and Living

Learning Objectives:
Acquire the essential financial literacy required of modern professionals to enable autonomous life planning, appropriate asset accumulation, and the avoidance of financial scams.

Core Learning Themes:

• Life Design & Household Management: Understanding payslips, social insurance systems, and long-term financial planning.
• Smart Consumerism: Fundamentals of contracts, loan and credit mechanisms, and personal credit scores.
• Financial Risk Prevention: The reality of specialized fraud, illicit part-time work compliance risks, and prevention strategies.
• Asset Building: Fundamentals of long-term, dollar-cost averaging, and diversified investing; selecting insurance; and macroeconomic principles.

■ Pricing and Availability (Japanese only)

Price:
99,000 JPY per corporation/organization annually (tax included)

License Cap:
Unlimited users per organization
*Utilizing this content requires an active learningBOX license agreement (Starter Plan or higher).
*Training can be launched immediately by adding the content directly from the learningBOX ON dashboard.

What is learningBOX ON?

learningBOX ON is a service that allows users of the learningBOX e-learning platform to integrate highly requested corporate training assets into their environment at no additional cost (with select premium paid content available). Organizations can seamlessly enhance their internal training ecosystems by combining these ready-made courses with their own proprietary in-house materials.