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Yoii has established Japan's first Revenue-Based Financing (RBF) fund with participation from Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking and others. Through this fund, Yoii will continue to support the growth of startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that are taking on new challenges. Background of the establishment of
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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