Mizuho

97 results about this entity

Period: 13 Aug 2007 - 14 Nov 2024

Mizuho and World Innovation Lab to establish fintech joint venture

Mizuho is joining forces with World Innovation Lab to create a joint venture company that will pair with startups from Japan and the US to create new business services utilising fintech innovations and the Internet of Things.

Mizuho to go live with DLT-based trade finance application

Mizuho Bank is preparing to conduct its first live trade financing transactions over a distributed ledger developed in association with IBM.

Mizuho enters digital wallet joint venture with Metaps

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (President & Group CEO: Yasuhiro Sato), Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (President & CEO: Koji Fujiwara), Metaps Inc. (CEO: Katsuaki Sato), and WiL LLC (CEO: Gen Isayama) signed an agreement for capital participation and business cooperation for the purpose of providing a new settlement service using FinTech.

Mizuho and Marubeni forge Asean fintech partnership

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (President & Group CEO: Yasuhiro Sato, “Mizuho FG”), Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (President & CEO: Nobuhide Hayashi, “Mizuho Bank”), and Marubeni Corporation (President & CEO: Fumiya Kokubo, “Marubeni”) have agreed to start exploring for opportunities to provide new financial services utilizing FinTech in the ASEAN region.

Mizuho carries out blockchain document sharing and digital currency trial

Japan's Mizuho says it has successfully completed trials that used distributed ledger technology for cross-border document sharing and a custom digital currency.

Japanese banks invest in local bitcoin exchange

Mizuho Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group have joined a $1.75 million funding round for Japan's biggest bitcoin exchange, bitFlyer, according to Nikkei.

Mizuho prepares for IoT banking

Mizuho has begun research and development on the creation of a platform for secure payments using IoT devices such as smart home kits, connected cars, and wearables.

Mizuho Bank chooses Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for regulatory reporting

Mizuho Bank’s Netherlands-based subsidiary has successfully implemented Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX to provide a solution for risk calculations and multi country regulatory reporting.

Mizuho opens Tokyo innovation lab

Japan's Mizuho is the latest banking giant to set up an innovation lab as it bids to nurture a fintech ecosystem and build up relationships with startups.

Japanese bank consortium to build new payments network with SBI Ripple Asia

A consortium of 15 Japanese banks are to work with blockchain joint venture SBI Ripple Asia, to build a new payments platform promising round-the-clock real-time settlement for cross-border and domestic funds transfers.

Mizuho experiments with Facebook Bot anmd Amazon Echo

Mizuho Bank, Ltd. has conducted two experiments of new financial communication services through Facebook bot and new banking services with an Alexa skill prototype for Amazon Echo in Silicon Valley, collaborating with Information Services International-Dentsu,Ltd.

Mizuho pilots Ripple for cross-border payments

Mizuho Financial Group (MHFG), one of the largest financial groups in Asia, just became one of the first Japanese banks to pilot blockchain technology for cross-currency settlement using Ripple.