Kokoro no Company, Inc. (Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Kazuhiro Migaki, formerly Trinity Technology, Inc., hereinafter referred to as "the Company") has entered into a business partnership agreement with Shimizu Bank, Ltd. (Head Office Location: Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, President: Yasuhiro Iwayama, hereinafter referred to as "Shimizu Bank") on June 17, 2026. The Company will provide "Ohisapo" to Shimizu Bank's customers. ■ Comments on the Partnership 【Kazuhiro Migaki, Representative Director, President & CEO, Kokoro no Company, Inc.】 We are pleased to announce our business partnership agreement with Shimizu Bank, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary in July 2028. Shimizu Bank contributes to the local community with a strong desire to connect the "bridges" and "threads" they have built and deepened with local customers, passing them on as a "relay" beyond their 100th anniversary. We feel immense happiness in being able to deliver peace of mind and safety to individual elderly people in the community by providing "Ohisapo" together with Shimizu Bank. Our company will continue to work with regional financial institutions with all our might to realize our mission of "solving the challenges of a super-aged society and creating a world of lasting peace of mind." ■ "Ohisapo": Always by Your Side, Instead of Family In Japan, the number of elderly people living alone is increasing due to aging and rising rates of unmarried individuals. As of 2021, households with elderly individuals living alone or only as a couple exceeded 15 million. Of these, approximately 17.2% (2.7 million households) are elderly households without children, highlighting the unignorable challenges faced by elderly individuals living alone. "Ohisapo" was created to solve the problem of asset freezing due to dementia for those who have no children, or who have children but do not want to burden them with care. "Ohisapo" not only solves the problem of asset freezing