Tag: Japan

A Japanese bank consortium planning to build a new real-time payments platform using technology from blockchain joint venture SBI Ripple Asia. Read more: www.finextra.com

Blockchain rapidly becoming one of the largest threats to the financial services industry as we know it today. Read more: www.valuewalk.com

Apple Inc.’s entry into Japanese digital payments is off to a rough start, with commuters struggling to register their train passes onto iPhones. Read more: www.bloomberg.com

Mizuho Financial Group has announced plans about setting up an innovation lab within the Fintech Center of Tokyo. Read more: www.econotimes.com

Tokyo-based asset management service WealthNavi has raised $15m in a Series B round of funding. The investment comes from SBI Holdings and other backers. Read more: www.fintechroundup.com

Japan may have a lot of tech-savvy consumers, but when it comes to payments, they haven’t embraced the new way of purchasing things. Read more: www.pymnts.com

Local banks love Money Forward in Japan. The personal finance company now has four million users and another $11m for its war chest. Read more: www.techinasia.com

Stripe, the company that lets app publishers, online merchants and other digital businesses include payments features via a few lines of code, is expanding. Read more: techcrunch.com

Natalie Fleming from Payoneer and the Fintech Association of Japan outlined the state of play for fintech in the land of the rising sun. Read more: www.techinasia.com

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) intends to begin managing its contracts on a blockchain-based platform. Read more: www.coindesk.com