MUFG picks TCS Bancs to consolidate payments
MUFG replaces a host of disparate payments systems with one regional hub powered by TCS Bancs.
MUFG replaces a host of disparate payments systems with one regional hub powered by TCS Bancs.
Messaging app and bank to establish JV through their subsidiaries.
Proof of concept will run on the Corda network.
Planned service between Japan and Brazil will use Ripple’s technology.
Ripple-powered payments app offers real-time settlement.
Users can transmit data to devices without allocating an IP address.
Owner Tech Bureau asks for $44.5m in financial assistance to deal with issues.
Teams with Synchronoss and TBCASoft for proof of concept.
Japanese e-commerce firm might get everybody talking.
Japanese firm says it will not make an initial coin offering.
Japanese post-pay outfit goes public with Visa backing.
It will use machine learning to identify sources of potential returns.
Move comes via a partnership with GMO Aozora Net Bank in Tokyo.
Bank’s Vision Fund on the prowl again.
APAC plan to promote adoption of decentralised applications.
Smartphone payment service called PayPay. Genius!
They aren’t KDDI-ing with their coupon settlement system experiment.
Becomes the first Japanese global custodian on the database.
The Strategy Development and Management Bureau is born.
Investment led by ITOCHU Corporation, with participation from Goldman Sachs.
Will start in September 2018 in Japan.
For customers seeking or refining projects based on DLT.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government wants you.
Aim to offer new network from fiscal year 2019.
Working with MUFG, Mizuho and more.
Teams with Idemia for biometrics and contactless innovation.
Will use Dynamic Boltzmann Machine to help forecast market trends and volatility.
Plan to conduct development studies of online finance products.
Launches joint research project with Tohoku University in Sendai.
Launches new clearing system for exchange traded derivatives, based on Cinnober’s tech.
SBI and Moven to set up a joint venture to bring the latter’s tech to Asia and Asia Pacific.
A rival digital payments system?
But it will compensate more than $423 million to 260,000 users who lost out.
Will offer Trusona’s password-less login solution to its enterprise customers across the nation.
in collaboration with Universal Robot and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
Looking to ride the wave of interest in cryptocurrencies, Telcoin is also hoping to raise funds from an ICO.
Fujitsu has teamed with Silicon Valley-based Sensory to provide face biometric authentication for Mizuho’s mobile banking. Mizuho is the first customer of the Fujitsu and Sensory partnership and it will be using TrulySecure. This solution’s features include the option to fuse voice and face biometrics recognition together; and it works with Android, iOS, Linux and […]
Fujitsu will work with Mizuho Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) to conduct a joint field trial of a person-to-person (P2P) money transfer service using blockchain. The trial will begin in January 2018 and last for about three months. Fujitsu says it has already initiated development of the […]
Japan-based Saxo Bank Securities has selected Torstone Technology’s Inferno to replace its legal ledger and comply with regulatory reporting requirements. It will initially use Inferno to improve its post-trade reporting processes and is looking to add additional features in future unspecified phases. Torstone says Inferno is a modular solution, giving organisations the “opportunity to incrementally […]
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