SMBC Asia Rising Fund closes investments in MODIFI, Easy Home Finance, and M2P Fintech
SMBC Asia Rising Fund, the corporate venture capital fund of SMBC Group, has announced its next three investments in startups operating…
Norbert Gehrke
Ginco and Multipeak partner on biodiversity credits and blue carbon
Ginco and Multipeak have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on a groundbreaking blue carbon credit generation and…
SBI Digital Markets builds framework for cross-border distribution of tokenised securities
SBI Digital Markets (SBIDM) has renewed its participation in the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Project Guardian pilots, taking part in…
OSL Group acquires stake in Japanese crypto asset exchange CoinBest
OSL Group, a Hong Kong publicly listed company fully dedicated to digital assets, announced the signing of a share purchase agreement by…
Mizuho invests USD 20m in Pollination
Mizuho Bank and Pollination have agreed to form a strategic partnership to support Mizuho’s clients’ efforts to implement decarbonisation…
Japan FinTech Observer #84
Welcome to the eighty-fourth edition of the Japan FinTech Observer.
Sota Watanabe presents Soneium at Chainlink’s SmartCon
Sota Watanabe, CEO of Startale and Director of Soneium, began his SmartCon presentation by introducing himself and the project he…
SBI launched Saudi Arabia ETF and partners for “BIM Capital” JV
Among all the news from the eighth Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Riyadh this past week, SBI Holdings took the spotlight…
UBS AM partners with DigiFT for its first tokenized Money Market Fund
UBS Asset Management, launches its first tokenized investment fund “uMINT”, made available through its authorized distribution partner…
Sumishin SBI Net Bank releases customer-oriented AI chatbot “Helpippi™”
SBI Sumishin Net Bank has developed an in-house generative AI chatbot for customers called “Helpippi™” and launched the service this week.
Launch of “Progmat SaaS” and “Implementation Support Services”
Progmat, in collaboration with NTT DATA and SBI R3 Japan, has launched both the SaaS version of “Progmat,” a digital asset issuance and…
Nomura reports second quarter earnings
Nomura Holdings announced its consolidated financial results for the second quarter and first half of the fiscal year ending March 31…