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au Jibun Bank has moved to bolster its internet banking security infrastructure, announcing the deployment of "AI Zero Fraud," a proprietary detection system developed by cybersecurity firm LAC. The integration, which went live during December 2025, represents a strategic shift toward artificial intelligence to mitigate the rising risk
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MUFG Bank has formally adopted a data de-identification solution provided by Toronto-based Private AI to enhance its proprietary big data infrastructure, "OCEAN." The strategic move is designed to accelerate the bank’s utilization of unstructured data while maintaining rigorous privacy governance. Unlocking Unstructured Data for Generative AI MUFG
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JCB, Japan’s only international payment brand, has entered into a strategic AI partnership with IBM Japan to fundamentally restructure its core system development. By integrating IBM’s Generative AI platform, watsonx, JCB aims to transition away from traditional labor-intensive development models, positioning AI as a central "joint development
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Japan's new AI Basic Plan, released as a draft on December 19, is framed as a national "counteroffensive" designed to reverse a perceived lag in artificial intelligence investment and utilization. The strategy directly confronts long-standing domestic challenges—including population decline, labor shortages, and stagnant wages—by
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The rapid emergence of Generative AI represents a monumental technological leap, but the long-term trajectory of its advancement now faces a critical threat: an impending data exhaustion problem. The vast, publicly accessible datasets that fueled the current generation of models are finite and are being consumed at an unsustainable rate.
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Mizuho Financial Group has developed a "finance-specialized LLM (Large Language Model)" trained on banking-specific business knowledge, rules, and procedures, which has achieved passing-level performance on banking practical exams. This model has acquired complex industry-specific rules and regulations unique to the financial sector, as well as internal procedures and
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Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has recently published the minutes for its third AI Public-Private Forum, held on November 5, 2025, which brought together a distinguished group of experts to chart a course for the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence in the financial sector. The forum's
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Mizuho Financial Group is releasing the generative AI-powered platform "Wiz Base" and will earnestly promote large-scale PoCs (Proof of Concepts) in anticipation of full-scale implementation of AI utilization in the sales support domain. Wiz Base is a platform built by Mizuho on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to operate
debt financing
Resona Bank and Fivot have jointly established the venture debt fund "RFC Venture Debt Fund 1 Limited Investment Partnership", with the aim of expanding financing for domestic startup companies from seed to middle stage. Purpose and Background Small and medium-sized enterprises, which account for 99.7% of Japanese
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Japan Digital Design (JDD) has developed a 70-billion parameter large language model (LLM) called "Llama-3.3-fintranslate-JDD-70b" specialized in translating financial market-related documents. In internal evaluations using actual business data, the model achieved performance exceeding global models such as GPT-4o. Additionally, JDD plans to soon begin providing a translation
banking
As Japan's largest megabank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) occupies a central position in both the domestic and global financial landscape. The company's recent disclosure of strong half-year financial results for the fiscal year ending March 2026 provides a clear window into its current operational momentum
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MUFG Bank, a consolidated subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), has entered into a strategic collaboration agreement with OpenAI. Through this agreement, MUFG Bank will also begin initiatives to create innovative customer experiences in retail banking. Since the October 2024 announcement of an alliance, both companies have been conducting