Zerobank Design Factory Co.,Ltd. (ZDF), a subsidiary of Fukuoka Financial Group, will begin offering a full-cloud banking system.
The fintech firm said in a statement that the system is based on the core system that ZDF and Accenture developed for Minna Bank. ZDF will provide this system to domestic and...
Giftee Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Japan-based giftee, Inc., has entered a partnership with Häagen-Dazs that enables all customers to both purchases and redeem Häagen-Dazs eGifts at all outlets nationwide.
With this collaboration, Häagen-Dazs is now integrated with Giftee Malaysia's eGift system. The ice cream brand will no longer...
Japan will join the United States and other Western countries in blocking certain Russian banks' access to the SWIFT international payment system, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Sunday, 27 February, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Tokyo will put sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and extend US$100 million in...
As global supply disruptions and fresh Covid-19 cases hit businesses and consumer spending, Japan's economy contracted much faster than expected in the third quarter, raising challenges for the new government's growth plans.
While many analysts expect the world's third largest economy to rebound in the current quarter, worsening global production...
Financial services company Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings and private market exchange ADDX have announced a new partnership to offer fractional private market investment products to investors in Japan, after Tokai Tokyo secured a security tokens license from the Japanese regulator.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed Tokai Tokyo is the holding company...
In a world where the average lifespan of a company is less than 20 years, there is a country that defies the statistics.
Japan is home to most of the old companies in the world. The Shinise, as these ancient businesses are known, are considered national treasures and some of...
Japan’s economy was expanding at a faster pace than initially estimated last quarter ahead of a record surge in virus cases that contributed to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s decision to step down.
Gross domestic product grew at an annualized pace of 1.9% in the three months to June, buoyed by...
Japan must boost aid to small firms which are seeking to raise wages as part of efforts to prop up spending on tourism, restaurants and other services hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, private-sector members of a key government panel said on Wednesday.
A resurgence in infections led the government to...
Toshiba Corp. and Japan's government colluded to lean on foreign investors to back company management in a key vote, according to an investigation which alleged one executive said they would ask the trade ministry to "beat up" a hedge fund.
The shareholder-commissioned report released on Thursday also said that Yoshihide...
Member nations of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on Wednesday officially agreed to allow the United Kingdom to start the process of joining the pact, Japan's economy minister said.
Japanese Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura told reporters he welcomed the start of Britain's joining process after hosting...
Early Monday morning in Asia saw Nikkei Asia came out with the news suggesting the doubling of Goldman Sachs property investment into Japan moving forward.
Goldman Sachs will increase its property investments in Japan to about 250 billion yen (US$2.28 billion) a year from the current range of 100 billion...
Even though the Tokyo Olympics are set to start in two months, calls for them to be cancelled have been growing louder in Japan as skepticism mounts over the organizers' ability to hold the multinational sporting event at a time when the country is struggling to contain the spread...
