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In the "2024 Corporate Main Bank Survey", GMO Aozora Net Bank topped the list for increase in main bank corporate customers (for companies with 500 or more clients). While GMO Aozora Net Bank was previously not included in the analysis due to this threshold, in 2024 its customer
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South Korean cybersecurity firm RaonSecure has won a contract worth 3.57 billion won (approximately $2.7 million USD) with Japan’s Sumishin SBI Net Bank to provide its biometric authentication solution, TouchEn OnePass. The deal marks a significant expansion of RaonSecure’s presence in Japan, following the company’s
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Welcome to the ninetieth edition of the Japan FinTech Observer. Nippon Life owned this week, like hardly any other Japanese company has owned the headlines in recent memory. The deal to acquire 20% of Corebridge, the AIG spinout, announced seven months ago, closed this week (< USD 4bn). Nippon Life
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JR East will progressively upgrade Suica's functionality over the next 10 years, transforming it into a digital platform as part of its mid-to-long-term business growth strategy, "Beyond the Border." Suica will evolve from a simple "travel device" to a "lifestyle device", seamlessly
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Melon, a company that provides emotion management training to resolve mental and emotional issues within organizations, announced that it has provided Melon's mindfulness program to Nippon Life. Internally, Nippon Life is working on health management under the banner of "Improving Well-being and Extending Healthy Life Expectancy for
UntroD Capital Japan has established the Crossover Impact Fund and has completed its first closing of 4 billion yen. The fund aims to…