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Asia GX Consortium officially launched
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PayPay Launches “PayPay Automated Investment”
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TSE revises procedures for company disclosures on “Cost of Capital and Stock Price”
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BOJ Meeting on the Third Market Functioning Survey concerning Climate Change
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Launch of Loan Digital Platform® Service for Kyoto Bank
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Mizuho and Golub Capital announce strategic partnership
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Establishment of JPY 20bn Japan Private Equity Opportunity 2024 for secondary investment in private…
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Mizuho to invest in Rakuten Card, Rakuten to cancel FinTech reorganization
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Japan FinTech Observer #79
Welcome to the seventy-ninth edition of the Japan FinTech Observer.