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Rakuten Mobile raises funds through sale-and-leaseback of mobile network assets
Rakuten Mobile raises funds through sale-and-leaseback of mobile network assets
Rakuten Group and Macquarie Asset Management today announced that Rakuten Mobile, a subsidiary of Rakuten Group, will raise between JPY 150…
Norbert Gehrke
Aug 8
Asuene raises USD 5.3m in Series C 2nd close, and makes first acquisition
Asuene raises USD 5.3m in Series C 2nd close, and makes first acquisition
Asuene has successfully raised approximately USD 5.3m in the 2nd close of its Series C round through a third-party allocation of shares…
Norbert Gehrke
Aug 7
Digital Garage and Resona Begin Online Lending Proof-of-Concept
Digital Garage and Resona Begin Online Lending Proof-of-Concept
Digital Garage (DG) has developed an AI model (“Insite Stream”) that evaluates the credit risk of restaurants using an industry-specific…
Norbert Gehrke
Aug 6
SuMi TRUST: What about those bear funds?
SuMi TRUST: What about those bear funds?
At the end of October 2023, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings (SuMi TRUST) slashed its net income forecast for FY2023 by 57.5%, JPY 200bn to…
Norbert Gehrke
Aug 6
JCBA & JVCEA submit tax reform proposal
JCBA & JVCEA submit tax reform proposal
At the end of July, the Japan Virtual and Crypto assets Exchange Association (JVCEA) and the Japan Cryptoasset Business Association (JCBA)…
Norbert Gehrke
Aug 6
Mortgage tech startup iYell raises JPY 1.86 billion in Series E funding
Mortgage tech startup iYell raises JPY 1.86 billion in Series E funding
iYell has raised a total of 1.86 billion yen through a third-party allotment of new shares to 13 companies, including the National…
Norbert Gehrke
Aug 6
Rakuten Wallet and CALIVERSE partner to expand web3 and metaverse businesses
Rakuten Wallet and CALIVERSE partner to expand web3 and metaverse businesses
Rakuten Wallet has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with CALIVERSE, a group company of the Lotte Group that operates a metaverse…
Norbert Gehrke
Aug 6
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Tokyo sliding to #21 among Global Financial Centers
Tokyo sliding to #21 among Global Financial Centers
The 33nd edition of Z/Yen’s Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) has been published, and just like six months ago, we once more…
Norbert Gehrke
Mar 28, 2023
eXponential Finance Podcast (Season III)
eXponential Finance Podcast (Season III)
Tired of reading or on the go? We have the audio solution for you! After 100 episodes of the Tokyo FinTech Podcast, we have launched our…
Norbert Gehrke
Nov 26, 2022
Japan’s Framework for Crypto-assets and Stablecoins
Japan’s Framework for Crypto-assets and Stablecoins
Tomoko Amaya, the Vice Minister for International Affairs, contributed an article on crypto-assets titled “Three major policy perspectives…
Norbert Gehrke
Sep 14, 2022
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