FSA Achievements & Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2024
A couple of weeks ago, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) published its Administrative Policy (i.e., Strategic Priorities) for the Fiscal…
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Real estate crowd-funding platform SYLA reports first half results
Nasdaq-listed SYLA Technologies, operator of the largest membership real estate crowd-funding platform in Japan, Rimawari-kun, reported its…
Podcast Highlights: Driving financial markets modernization in Japan
Welcome to the 143rd edition of the eXponential Finance Podcast. Whether you listen to us for the first time, or are a regular, we…
JI Accident & Fire Insurance launches “Suitcase Damage Insurance Automatic Payment Service”
JI Accident & Fire Insurance has started offering the “Suitcase Damage Claims Automatic Payment Service”, where AI detects damage to…
Oasys expands to Arbitrum, adopting the Orbit Stack on the Verse Layer
Oasys is collaborating with the Arbitrum Foundation to integrate Arbitrum Orbit — the Layer 2 and Layer 3 scaling solution for Ethereum —…
NETSTARS partners with ACI Worldwide for cashless payments
NETSTARS has partnered with ACI Worldwide to support the further international development of cashless payments in Japan. The two companies…
Announcement of companies to be supported by “TSE Asia Startup Hub”
The Tokyo Stock Exchange announced the launch of the TSE Asia Startup Hub on March 25, 2024.
SMBC invests JPY 10bn in Infcurion, combining to create leading digital payments platform
Sumitomo Mitsui Card, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Infcurion have concluded a capital and business alliance agreement for…
SBI Holdings invests in open finance platform UBX Philippines
SBI Holdings has invested in UBX Philippines, a company driving digital transformation in the Philippines, through the SBI group company.
DMM Bitcoin receives business improvement order
The Kanto Local Finance Bureau has today issued an administrative disposition to DMM Bitcoin based on the provisions of Article 63–16 of…
21X Announces Strategic Partnership with SBI Digital Markets
21X — a distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based market infrastructure for tokenized securities, which has applied for a license to…
DGFT’s QR code payment solution “Cloud Pay” implemented on Square
DG Financial Technology (DGFT) announced that its shared QR code payment solution “Cloud Pay” has been adopted by Square (operated by…