NTT Docomo acquires 66% of Orix Credit for JPY 79.2bn
NTT Docomo and ORIX Corporation have entered into a share transfer agreement and a shareholders’ agreement, respectively, for ORIX Credit…
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Daiwa Securities takes 10% stake in Singapore’s Penguin Securities
Daiwa Securities Group has agreed to enter into a partnership with Penguin Securities.
SBI Digital Markets and CAT Financial Products announce strategic partnership
SBI Digital Markets (SBIDM) in Singapore and CAT Financial Products AG (CATFP) in Zurich today announced their partnership to establish a…
Animoca Brands and KDDI partner to accelerate Web3 adoption
Animoca Brands Japan, a strategic subsidiary of Animoca Brands, and KDDI have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore a…
Smartpay partners with Chubb in Japan for embedded insurance
Smartpay, one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in Asia that provides the “Smartpay” buy-now-pay-later service, has entered into a…
Japan FinTech Observer #49
Welcome to the forty-ninth edition of the Japan FinTech Observer.
SMBC’s Olives reaches 2 million accounts
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company began offering the comprehensive financial service “Olive” for…
Topologic raised JPY 700m for the development of topological materials
Topological materials have a completely different electronic band structure from existing materials, and exhibit phenomena not seen in…
JIC makes LP investments in Atomico Venture VI and Atomico Growth VI
Developing opportunities for collaboration between overseas and domestic VCs to create global unicorns, and utilizing knowledge of overseas…
Crypto Garage adds staking service to its Institutional Digital Asset Custody
Crypto Garage has launched an Ethereum (ETH) staking service that complements their existing institutional digital asset custody service…
Nium obtains Type 1 Funds Transfer License in Japan
Nium, the leader in real-time cross-border payments, has secured a Type 1 Funds Transfer Service Provider (FTSP) license from the Japanese…
JR West, NTT, Mizuho, SMBC, MUFG, and DBJ launch “JCLaaS” for infrastructure management
JR West, NTT Communications, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, MUFG Bank, and Development Bank of Japan have signed a…