Bite-sized Finance and FinTech news from Japan.

Today: Wise has become the first non-bank operating in Japan to be granted approval to join Zengin, Japan’s domestic payment network

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Today: The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and the Japan Securities Clearing Corporation (JSCC) collaborated to revolutionize collateral management through digital assets.

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Today: Hakuhodo partners with Tools for Humanity, promoter of Worldcoin

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Today: Aptos Labs acquires HashPalette, enters into strategic partnership with HashPort

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Today: PayPay allows users to select suitable products from two carefully chosen mutual funds and set up regular investments.

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Today: The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is revising its list of companies that have disclosed information regarding “Action to Implement Management That Is Conscious of Cost of Capital and Stock Price”.

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Today: Mizuho to invest in Rakuten Card, Rakuten to cancel FinTech reorganization

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Today: The Japan Investment Corporation (JIC) has published its "Venture Capital Market Update" for the first half of 2024. We cover the overall trends they have identified in the Japanese market.

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Today: SMCC, SMBC Bank, and Infcurion have concluded a capital and business alliance agreement to accelerate corporate DX support by combining Sumitomo Mitsui Card's payment solutions with Infcurion's cutting-edge payment platform.

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Today: The 36th edition of Z/Yen’s Global Financial Centres Index has been published, and Tokyo gave up the rank it had gained six months ago, settling back just inside the Top 20.

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