via PYMNTS Tokyo, Japan’s digital banking startup Kyash has closed a $45 million Series C funding deal

via TechCrunch The new era of tech-enabled banks is coming, even in regulation-heavy Japan. Kyash,

via CoinGeek Exchanges that are a little too lax on their anti-money laundering (AML) and

On September 26, Jeremy Berger presented Arival Bank at Fin/Sum2018, held in Tokyo. Arival was

By Steven Millward for techinAsia Rakuten Ventures, the investment arm of the Japan-based ecommerce titan,

By Reuters Strict regulation has been choking out financial innovation in the world’s third-biggest economy.

By Richard Smart for Guardian, Proposed changes would bring bitcoin, dogecoin and other cryptocurrencies under

TECHINASIA: E-Marketer predicts that by 2018 there will be 200 million new smartphone users in

FORTUNE: Former Google executive Nikesh Arora joined SoftBank last year to oversee the Japanese company’s investment

The Next Web: Japan-based messenger app LINE is one of the biggest apps in Asia, but many