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Company announcement/regulation

Fenergo automates client onboarding for Mizuho Americas

Fenergo, the leading provider of digital transformation, customer journey and client lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for financial institutions, today announces that Mizuho Americas has deployed Fenergo’s software to automate Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory processes, digitalize workflows and accelerate client onboarding onto a single platform.

06 January 2021

News/identity

Fujitsu, JCB and Mizuho to test digital identity interoperability

Fujitsu, JCB and Mizuho Bank are to jointly test a system that enables secure transactions involving sensitive user ID information between companies and industries.

20 October 2020

Company announcement/retail

Mizuho, MUFG join Japanese quantum consortium

Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the University of Tokyo unveiled a landmark collaboration with the launch of the Quantum Innovation Initiative Consortium (QIIC).

03 August 2020

News/payments

Japanese banks explore common digital currency settlement infrastructure

Japan's three biggest banks are investigating the creation of a digital currency settlement infrastructure.

05 June 2020

News/identity

Mizuho Bank to build and test Digital ID

Mizuho Bank has begun proof-of-concept trials of Digital ID based on device location and facial recognition to improve online banking authentication and ongoing customer due diligence.

14 April 2020

News

Mizuho partners InComm to roll out J-Coin Pay to retailers

Mizuho Bank's J-Coin digital currency platform is coming to more than 18,000 retail locations thanks to an agreement between the Japanese lender and payments technology firm InComm.

30 September 2019

Company announcement/payments

Mizuho joins Fnality backers

Fnality International (Fnality), the company building the means of payments on-chain for tomorrow’s financial markets utilising the Utility Settlement Coin (USC), is pleased to announce that Mizuho Bank, the core group company of Mizuho Financial Group, one of the largest financial services group in Japan, has joined the original group of 14 founding shareholders working to deliver the collective goal to transform clearing and settlement processes, and support global exchange of value transactions; setting the standards for tomorrow’s tokenised infrastructure.

12 September 2019

Company announcement

Wirecard expands Mizuho partnership

Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology, is expanding its partnership with Mizuho Bank, Ltd., a leading global financial institution.

04 September 2019

Company announcement

Mizuho says 57 banks now connected to J-Coin app

On Friday, March 1, 2019, Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (President & CEO: Koji Fujiwara), a core subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (President & CEO: Tatsufumi Sakai), launched the QR code–based smartphone payment service app J–Coin Pay for Mizuho Bank account holders.

27 June 2019

Company announcement

Mizuho selects smartTrade as core technology supplier for next gen trading system

smartTrade Technologies, a global leader in multi asset, end-to-end trading solutions for the Sell and Buy sides, has been selected by Mizuho Bank Japan to deliver their next generation e-FX platform.

28 March 2019

News

Mizuho Bank clinches support of AliPay and UnionPay for J-Coin roll out

Mizuho Bank is on track to launch its new digital currency platform J-Coin Pay on 1 March with the support of 60 regional financial institutions.

22 February 2019

News/ai

Mizuho taps AI to automate data processing of hand-written docs

Japan's Mizuho Financial Group has teamed up with six regional financial institutions to develop an AI-based tool for automating data processing of hand-written documents and non-standard forms.

11 February 2019