Mizuho Bank and IBM Japan announced Thursday (Aug. 24) Mizuho Bank had begun operations toward more advanced and efficient risk management. The financial institution is employing cognitive technology to take measures against financial crimes such as terrorism financing. Governments around the world have urged financial institutions...
Japan’s Mizuho Bank is moving forward with plans to use blockchain for trade finance. The bank said Friday (July 7) that it has completed its first distributed ledger-based trade finance transaction between Australia and Japan, with data and document sharing successfully transmitted between parties using...
IBM Japan announced Thursday (June 8) the launch of API banking for Mizuho Bank, that provides the bank with the ability to tailor services to its customers. In a press release IBM announced the bank will use IBM Japan’s FinTech API solution, as well as...
Mizuho Financial Group, the Japanese financial company, is gearing up to launch a venture in June to create new businesses with FinTech. According to a report in Reuters, Daisuke Yamada, Mizuho’s chief digital innovation officer, said in an interview the company already has around 20...
February 22, 2021
LINE Corp. and Mizuho Financial Group have agreed to increase their investment in LINE Bank Preparatory Co. and to make changes to its management structure as part of creating a new bank in Japan. The companies said in a press release that the goal is to set up “a user-friendly ‘smartphone bank’ connected to the LINE […]
June 09, 2017
IBM Japan announced Thursday (June 8) the launch of API banking for Mizuho Bank, that provides the bank with the ability to tailor services to its customers. In a press...
May 26, 2017
Mizuho Financial Group, the Japanese financial company, is gearing up to launch a venture in June to create new businesses with FinTech. According to a report in Reuters, Daisuke Yamada,...
January 16, 2017
The Trump Tweet Trade. Say it five times fast. Technology allows traders to make a profit trading any commodity, and with wave after wave of tweets from President-Elect Donald Trump,...
