Join us as we dive deep with Chino-san from Binance, exploring the transformation of Japan's financial market through digitalization and cutting-edge technologies.

From his career journey at traditional exchanges to pivotal roles at Kraken and Binance, discover why Binance stands out in revolutionizing the Japanese crypto industry.

Understand the challenges and opportunities within Japan's financial and crypto sectors, including regulatory landscapes, token listings, and the introduction of stablecoins and ETFs.

This episode offers a comprehensive view of the future of digital finance in Japan.

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Habitto is Japan's first connected money experience, helping people save, grow and protect their money.

​Habitto has become the first company to register as a deposit-taking and electronic financial services intermediary in Japan, using a license type that the FSA made available towards the end of 2021.

Samantha Ghiotti, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, brings over 20 years of unique vantage points and global experience in Technology and Finance to this conversation. Her track record spans banking, investment and insurance across 5 continents, as an investor, entrepreneur and executive.  

Sam led the Singlife team through its exit in 2021, before launching Habitto, her new business in Japan

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Jitendra Singh Jaitawat is a Partner & the Founding CTO at Helicap, as well as Co-Founder and CEO at Helix.

Helicap is a Singapore-based FinTech firm providing curated and exclusive private co-investments to a wide network of accredited investors. Through their institutional-grade credit analytics technology, Helicap extracts meaningful credit insights for their risk management framework. This is complemented by Helicap's fully online and MAS licensed investor deal platform, with co-investment opportunities to their exclusive investor base.

HELIX is an institutional RWA protocol connecting on-chain investors to real-world private credit opportunities. It is the answer to the issues plaguing DeFi yields and the TradFi credit financing gap. HELIX aims to provide institutional and accredited investors access to stable yields that are uncorrelated to the broader crypto market volatility through risk managed real-world asset backed loans.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via 

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Stephen Nagy's latest edited volume (jointly with Indu Saxena) focuses on the changing regional security dynamics of Southeast Asia within the context of the U.S.-China strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific.

On the one hand, China’s growing influence and assertive behavior in the South China Sea and the Archipelago region are the main concerns of these countries.

On the other hand, Southeast Asian countries are skeptical—if not hesitant—with the formation of new mini-lateral frameworks and emerging institutional cooperation such as the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) and AUKUS.

In this highly competitive strategic environment, these countries prefer to position themselves in a flexible mode of sometimes leaning toward the United States or China based on a nuanced balance of maintaining both strategic autonomy and opportunities that manifest in the region.

In line with this flexible mode of engagement, Southeast Asian countries prefer to eschew an explicitly pro-position vis-à-vis the United States or China, cognizant of the turbulence ahead due to the deepening of U.S.–China strategic competition—this, despite the fact that freedom of navigation and a rule-based international order is much desired by Southeast Asian countries to establish and maintain peace and stability in the region.

Speaker Profile

Dr. Stephen Nagy received his PhD in International Relations/Studies from Waseda University in 2008. His main affiliation is as a professor at the International Christian University, Tokyo.

Stephen is also a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI); a visiting fellow with the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA); a senior fellow at the MacDonald Laurier Institute (MLI); and a senior fellow with the East Asia Security Centre (EASC).

He also serves as the Director of Policy Studies for the Yokosuka Council of Asia Pacific Studies (YCAPS) spearheading their Indo-Pacific Policy Dialogue series.

Stephen is currently working on middle power approaches to great power competition in the Indo-Pacific, understanding Japanese foreign policy and Sino-Japanese relations.

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Kay is the Founder of MVL (Mass Vehicle Ledger), TADA (ride hailing) and ONiON (electric tricycles).

Earlier in his founder journey, Mothership, a Singaporean online magazine, portrayed Kay as the “Korean guy who made a ride hailing app for the Singapore market after meeting driver who called himself a ‘dog’”.

But then, the sequencing evolved quite naturally. The blockchain needed a use case to prove its utility, so the zero-commission ride hailing up was worn, and when expanding from Singapore to Cambodia, the need for manufacturing/financing/renting a captive vehicle production seemed inevitable.

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The eXponential Finance Podcast welcomes Bruno Diniz back to explore the evolution of financial technology in Brazil, highlighting the success of PIX in transforming the financial landscape and the upcoming launch of a Central Bank Digital Currency named DREX. We also discuss open finance, tokenizing the economy, and the global impact of Brazil's fintech innovations.

Bruno Diniz is the Managing Partner at Spiralem Innovation Consulting, and Director of the Financial Data & Technology Association (FDATA) for Latin America. Bruno is also a columnist for magazines such as Exame magazine, FEBRABAN's Noomis portal and Cointelegraph, in addition to being a professor of innovation focused on the financial market at the USP/ESALQ MBA, speaker and author of the books "O Fenômeno Fintech" and " The New Financial Logic".

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via 

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Jed is the Founder of AngelSchool.vc. As a Tech Operator, he built the world’s largest API Marketplace with an a16z-backed startup.

Jed began investing in startups in 2016. Like most angels, he staked his own capital. Despite having never worked in VC, he got his first exit in 2018. Jed has also backed 2 seed-stage startups that became Unicorns ($1BN+ valuation).

People started asking “what are you investing in next?”, so he began sharing his deals with other investors. Since 2020, Jed's investor network has grown to 1200+ organically. The Angel School syndicate also wrote a $1MN check into a startup.

Jed fundamentally believes venture investing is a learnable skill. As a self-taught angel, he has experienced how daunting and lonely it is. This podcast episode discusses the foundational angel investing skills, and suggests a learning path.

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Rakkar Digital is a Singapore-based company that provides digital asset custodian services to institutional clients in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. The company is backed by SCB 10X, the investment arm of Siam Commercial Bank, and powered by Fireblocks. Leveraging cutting-edge multi-party computation (MPC)-CMP custody infrastructure as their underlying technology, Rakkar Digital provides the highest level of security for assets along with bankruptcy remote mechanism of asset segregation. The company supports a wide range of assets and blockchain protocols and offers highly customizable policy engine, giving clients greater control and flexibility over their assets. With fast service-level agreements (SLAs) and round-the-clock support from its team of blockchain experts and security professionals, Rakkar Digital is committed to delivering institutional-grade custody services.

Rakkar Digital has obtained a Trust or Company Service Provider (TCSP) licence in Hong Kong and an organisation controls 2 (SOC 2) Type 1 attestation. Operating offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Vietnam, Rakkar Digital is well-positioned to provide custodian services to clients across the region.

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CrediLinq is a technology infrastructure company that is enabling B2B platforms to offer embedded finance to their customers.

B2B PayLater for buyers and GMV Financing for sellers is a huge opportunity to both improve conversion, increase average order volumes and dramatically reduce operational burden. The future of B2B payments and purchasing will very much look like the current consumer level experience – we at CrediLinq.Ai are accelerating that change.

Credilinq is helmed by Deep Singh, a passionate banker-turned-entrepreneur. He is a specialist in corporate and commercial finance with a hunger for innovation. He was previously Chief Capital Officer at a US$1.3 billion private credit firm and left behind his corporate career to start Credilinq. He aims to use his 17 years of rich experience in credit to support the growth of SMEs and help asset allocators achieve superior risk-adjusted returns.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via 

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Oliver Hall is the Head of Tech Investments for Europe and Japan at Copenhagen Capacity, and a Co-Founder & Investment Director for Japanese Investments at the Nordic Asian Venture Alliance.

Our discussion covers topics such as sustainability, digitalization, foreign direct investment, Japanese capital, and the new Nordics.

Oliver shares his background and how he ended up in the Nordics. We also talk about the advantages of Copenhagen for foreign direct investments, venture capital, and startups, the collaboration between Japan and the new Nordics, and the focus on smart city urban tech, health tech, and food tech. The conversation also highlights the interest and investment from Japanese venture capital firms into the region.

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