Launch of Loan Digital Platform® Service for Kyoto Bank
SMBC Consumer Finance (SMBCCF), together with NTT DATA, has begun providing the Loan Digital Platform® service to The Bank of Kyoto. This…
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Mizuho and Golub Capital announce strategic partnership
Mizuho Financial Group and Golub Capital have announced a strategic partnership. As part of the agreement, Mizuho has purchased a passive…
Establishment of JPY 20bn Japan Private Equity Opportunity 2024 for secondary investment in private…
WM Partners and A.I. Capital (AIC) have jointly established the “Japan Private Equity Opportunity 2024 Investment Limited Partnership”…
Mizuho to invest in Rakuten Card, Rakuten to cancel FinTech reorganization
Rakuten Group announced that its consolidated subsidiary Rakuten Card and Mizuho Financial Group have agreed to consider a new strategic…
Japan FinTech Observer #79
Welcome to the seventy-ninth edition of the Japan FinTech Observer.
Snowflake at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Group: A Journey of Data-Driven Transformation
The Snowflake World Tour made a stop in Tokyo during September, and approximately 5,000 participants filled the halls of the ANA…
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…
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…