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@norbertgehrke "Dassai a sake brewer in Yamaguchi Prefecture and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said that a Japanese H3 rocket will carry ingredients for Dassai sake as well as brewing equipment developed by the two for use in space. Read more:"
X Link @norbertgehrke 2025-10-13T02:34Z 1455 followers, XX engagements

"Sakana AI will partner withDaiwa Securities in its first alliance with a securities firm. This collaboration brings together Daiwa Securities Groups deep industry knowledge with Sakana AIs cutting-edge AI technology. Daiwa has long focused on a client-first approach to asset management looking at a customers total financial picture. Together the two companies will use digital innovation to create groundbreaking new value. The partners will jointly build and roll out a Total Asset Consulting Platform. Powered by Sakana AIs own AI models the platform is designed to maximize asset value for"
X Link @norbertgehrke 2025-10-03T02:40Z 1455 followers, XXX engagements

"Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC Group) its wholly owned subsidiary Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and SMBC Nikko Securities and Jefferies Financial Group have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand their global strategic alliance by establishing a joint venture in Japan to conduct their wholesale Japanese equities business. This joint venture will be the cornerstone of the wholesale Japanese equities business encompassing equity capital markets (ECM) within investment banking equity sales and trading and equity research across global markets. With a view to further"
X Link @norbertgehrke 2025-09-20T03:07Z 1455 followers, XXX engagements

"Happy Fourth Year Anniversary Nudge Nudge has developed and operates a next-generation credit card that combines the security safety and convenience of financial services with highly entertaining experience design featuring elements like "choosing by design" and "supporting your favorites." Through this approach Nudge is working toward realizing a world where people naturally integrate financial services into their daily lives. Under this mission Nudge has added various Japan-first innovations to its cloud-native credit card service platform "Nudge Platform" enabling not only further"
X Link @norbertgehrke 2025-10-13T02:29Z 1455 followers, XX engagements

"SBI Sumishin Net Bank has decided to evolve the open-system core banking system "NEFSS (Next Evolution in Financial Services Systems)" provided by IBM Japan into a new architecture that enables expansion aligned with future growth and to fully migrate to an Amazon Web Services cloud environment by early 2028. Read more:"
X Link @norbertgehrke 2025-09-19T09:20Z 1454 followers, XXX engagements

"SBI Securities Shinsei Trust & Banking Tokio Marine Asset Management and BOOSTRY have jointly developed Japan's first public offering scheme for security tokens of specified beneficial interest-issuing trusts that realize PE investment and will collaborate on its public offering. The offering acquisition and transfer of security tokens in this Scheme will be managed on the consortium-type blockchain platform "ibet for Fin" developed under BOOSTRY's leadership. This is Japan's first offering of specified beneficial interest-issuing trusts investing in domestic PE Funds utilizing security"
X Link @norbertgehrke 2025-09-30T04:10Z 1455 followers, XXX engagements

"Sumitomo Mitsui Card Takes Controlling Stake in V Point Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company Culture Convenience Club and CCCMK Holdings have reached an agreement regarding the capital restructuring of CCCMKHD which operates "V Point." Sumitomo Mitsui Card will acquire additional shares of CCCMKHD making CCCMKHD a subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Card. Also through CCCMKHD's acquisition of some of its treasury shares from CCC the capital structure of CCCMKHD will change from the current "Sumitomo Mitsui Card 20%: Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group 20%: CCC 60%" to "Sumitomo"
X Link @norbertgehrke 2025-10-03T04:46Z 1454 followers, XXX engagements

"Apollo Global Management - According to a recent Morningstar survey the proportion of investors who view ESG as part of their fiduciary duty has increased in most surveyed countries with notable declines in the US and Australia see chart below. With the "Sustainable Finance Forum" taking place in Tokyo today it is once again a good time to think about why Japan is falling behind"
X Link @norbertgehrke 2025-10-14T22:11Z 1455 followers, XX engagements

"Infcurion which willgo public on the Growth Segment of the Tokyo Stock Exchangeon October XX 2025 has started offering the latest version of its next-generation card platform "Xard (Exard)". This latest version adds integrated implementation of "member management" "funding source management" and "credit management"functions that previously required significant development effortto the platform's standard features. This enables companies adopting Xard to launch their own branded credit cards prepaid cards debit cards and other financial products with minimal development resources. Read more:"
X Link @norbertgehrke 2025-10-13T01:45Z 1454 followers, XX engagements

"The Japan FinTech Observer for the week ending October XX 2025 - Cutting through the noise in Japanese Finance & FinTech Read it here:"
X Link @norbertgehrke 2025-10-14T00:07Z 1455 followers, XX engagements

"Sony Financial Ventures and Global Brain Corporation have established a new joint venture company through a co-investment. The new company aims to build an environment for Japanese and overseas entrepreneurs to pursue their endeavors and evolve into a platform that creates long-term growth opportunities. It will bring together Global Brains investment knowhow and Sony Groups technology and adopt an AI-powered and data-driven investment mode to support entrepreneurs challenges with greater precision and speed and unlock global growth opportunities. Read more:"
X Link @norbertgehrke 2025-10-15T08:04Z 1455 followers, XX engagements

"SBI Sumishin Net Bank will become a consolidated subsidiary of NTT DOCOMO as of October 1st 2025. Following the consolidation starting on the same date the service will be rebranded as d NEOBANK which is representing the wide range of services directly provided by SSNB to both individual and corporate clients. As a member of DOCOMO Group SSNB will further accelerate its efforts toward growth and value creation. Read more:"
X Link @norbertgehrke 2025-09-29T09:05Z 1454 followers, XXX engagements

"Chiba Bank at Snowflake World Tour Tokyo The @Snowflake World Tour stopped by in Tokyo on September XX & XX with some interesting Finance case studies on the agenda. This presentation details the successful project byChiba Bank one of Japan's largest regional banks which has embarked on an ambitious digital transformation (DX) initiative aimed at delivering the "Ultimate Customer Experience." At the heart of this strategy is the development of a modern data and AI platform powered by Snowflake. This new foundation is already enabling sophisticated one-to-one marketing streamlining internal"
X Link @norbertgehrke 2025-10-11T02:22Z 1454 followers, XXX engagements