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Welcome to the ninety-seventh edition of the Japan FinTech Observer. Here you can view the future of Japan: Musashino University's Entrepreneurship Musashino Campus (EMC GLOBAL) held its academic year-end event and pitch contest, also including regional winners from the Philippines, Singapore, and India. The quality of the pitches
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Money Forward, with a fiscal year that runs from December to November, reported fiscal year 2024 results last week. While these numbers came in largely in line with expectations, the forecast for fiscal year 2025 rattled investors. The shares went "limit down" on Wednesday, and continued sliding on
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Welcome to the ninety-fourth edition of the Japan FinTech Observer. We apologize for the tardiness of this week's newsletter. Let's just say the editorial team has been...decimated. Not by alien invaders (though with this cough, I wouldn't rule it out), but by a
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Welcome to the ninety-second edition of the Japan FinTech Observer. We would like to express our gratitude for your support and enthusiasm in growing our subscriber count by 44% this year, and wishing you a fulfilling year of the snake. The Nikkei closed the year up 19.22%, setting a
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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