Digital Wallet Corporation acquires International Money Transfer Service from Seven-Eleven Group…
Global IT and fintech company, Digital Wallet Corporation (DWC), has reached an agreement with Seven Bank, a Japanese bank run by Seven & i…
Norbert Gehrke
Minto raises funds from NTT Docomo Ventures
Minto has raised funds through a third-party allocation of new shares to NTT Docomo Ventures.
Chintai Nexus launches All-In-One Real World Asset Platform
The Chintai Group has launched an all-in-one real world asset tokenization platform called Chintai Nexus. The application supports the full…
Zero One Bank adopts BaaS by GMO Aozora
01Bank (Zero One Bank, currently under preparation, subject to approval from relevant authorities) of Ikeda Senshu Holdings has decided to…
KONA I to introduce biometric smart cards with IDEX Biometrics in Japan
IDEX Biometrics and KONA I are partnering to deploy biometric payment and access cards in Japan. With credit card fraud reported by…
MUFG-backed ChargeAfter’s Lending Hub selected by Citi Retail Services
ChargeAfter, the embedded lending platform for point-of-sale financing announced that Citi Retail Services, one of North America’s largest…
Hakuhodo and Japan Airlines launch second web3 “KOKYO NFT”
Hakuhodo and Japan Airlines (JAL) announced the second phase of demonstration experiments for “KOKYO NFT”, which aims to turn domestic and…
Reazon Holdings invests in Validus Vietnam
Reazon Holdings has successfully closed an investment in VGrowth Development (“Validus Vietnam”), which is the Vietnamese subsidiary of…
Japan FinTech Observer #45
Welcome to the forty-fifth edition of the Japan FinTech Observer.
Sumitomo Life deploys LOOKIT for remote customer service
Sumitomo Life Insurance has started using the platform “LOOOKIT” provided by Waagu, a startup company in Silicon Valley, at its Vitality…
LLC-type DAOs are coming to Japan
Important ordinance revisions that will enable the establishment of DAOs in the form of limited liability companies (LLCs) in Japan have…
Podcast Highlights: Japanese Capital & FDI into the New Nordics
Oliver Hall, the Head of Tech Investments for Europe and Japan at Copenhagen Capacity, and a Co-Founder & Investment Director for Japanese…