SBI Digital Asset Holdings and Chiliz to forge JV for sporting fan tokens
SBI Digital Asset Holdings, the digital asset arm of SBI Holdings, and Chiliz, a leading blockchain provider for sports and entertainment…
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Nudge raises Series A extension from TIS, debt financing from MUFG Bank
Nudge has completed an additional Series A funding round, bringing the total amount raised in the Series A round to over JPY 3bn. This…
Sumitomo Mitsui Card announces cashless campaign for SMEs
Sumitomo Mitsui Card has been continuously working to promote and expand cashless payments as a social infrastructure, not only for…
LY Corporation FY2023 Earnings Summary
LY Corporation, the parent company of Yahoo! Japan and LINE, released its FY2023 full year and Q4 earnings report, highlighting significant…
Launch of “& JCB Fintech Program”, with FamilyTech as the first project
JCB is launching the “& JCB Fintech Program (~ Your First Partner. JCB ~)”, a program to support new entrants into the payment business…
Japan FinTech Observer #58
Welcome to the fifty-eighth edition of the Japan FinTech Observer.
First “Council of Experts on Venture Capital” meeting held
On April 30, 2024, the first “Council of Experts on Venture Capital” meeting was held, co-hosted by the Financial Services Agency and the…
MS&AD Group introduces Automobile Insurance for Relay Transportation
Mitsui Sumitomo Aioi Fire & Marine Insurance and Aioi Nissay Dowa General Insurance of the MS&AD Insurance Group have started selling the…
SMBC Group to introduce new Wevox plan for 100,000 employees
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has decided to introduce the Standard Plan of the organizational capability improvement platform “Wevox”…
Infcurion upgrades invoice payment platform Winvoice with new functions
Infcurion has added new functions for Payers (Buyers) to the invoice payment platform “Winvoice“. Newly added functions allow users to pay…
Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance invests in drone operator Aeronext
Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance, a member of the MS&AD Insurance Group, has concluded a capital and business alliance agreement with Aeronext…
Sparx Group establishes “Space Frontier Fund №2”
Sparx Asset Management, a subsidiary of Sparx Group, has established the “Space Frontier Fund №2” and Toyota Motor Corporation, MUFG Bank…