Mar. 9, 2020
For Immediate Release
FINOLAB Inc.
FINOVATORSWINNER ANNOUNCED FOR JAPAN FINANCIAL INNOVATION AWARD 2020
～ Inauguration of New FinTech Award to Evaluate Innovation, Growth, and Transformation～

TOKYO, Mar. 9, 2020 - FINOLAB Inc. and FINOVATORS - have inaugurated “Japan Financial Innovation
Award 2020（JFIA2020）” and announced the winners of the respective category.
JFIA2020 is inaugurated this year to promote innovative initiatives in financial area by adopting
information technology and share best practices in the industry, and expects to further expand openinnovation beyond corporate group and business sector. JFIA2020 consists for 3 categories, including
Startup, Financial Institution, and Collaboration. FINOLAB, the FinTech Center of Japan, administrated theevaluation process by extracting about 300 innovative initiatives from press releases during the year 2019.
And final candidates and winners were selected by the group of professionals, FINOVATORS, based on thejudgement on innovation, growth, and transformation.
Further Judgment is scheduled to announce Grand Prize and Category Excellence on Mar. 23 at “FutureFrontier Fes by FINOLAB (4F).”

JFIA 2020 Winners
CategoryStartup

Company
Crowd Cast, Ltd.

Funds, Inc.

Initiative (Some are Only in Japanese)
Corporate Prepaid Card for Expense Management
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000028.000003611.html

Online Market for Lending Fund
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000042.000023781.html

Program to Earn Cryptocurrency with Credit Card Usage
GINKAN, Inc.

https://medium.com/synchrocoin/japans-first-program-to-earn-cryptocurrencywhen-using-your-credit-card-social-restaurant-919934a5270

TRUSTDOCK Inc.

WealthNavi Inc.

e-KYC Identity Verification App
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000037.000033766.html

Wealth Management Advice with AI
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000154.000014586.html

FinancialInstitution

Fukuoka Financial Group, Inc.

GMO Aozora Net Bank, Ltd.

ORIX Bank Corporation

SBINeoMobile Securities Co., Ltd.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.
Collaboration

Next Generation Banking System on Public Cloud
https://www.fukuoka-fg.com/news_info_pdf/2019/20190924_zerobank.pdf

Developers' Portal for Bank API
https://gmo-aozora.com/news/2019/20190115-01.html

Living Trust for Donating to Local Government
https://www.orixbank.co.jp/news/detail/20190326_475.html

New Brokerage Service to Purchase Stock with T-POINT
http://www.sbigroup.co.jp/news/2019/0410_11509.html

Online Signup for Corporate Card
https://www.smbc.co.jp/news/j601924_01.html

Emerada Co., Ltd.

Face to Face Type Cash-Flow Lending

Johoku Shinkin BANK

https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000017.000025084.html

LINE Corporation

J/V to Establish Smartphone Bank, LINE BANK

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.

https://linecorp.com/ja/pr/news/ja/2019/2720

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Ltd.
LayerX Inc.

etc.

Nihon Unisys, Ltd.
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd.
Doreming PTE. LTD.

ST Research Consortium to Develop Next-Generation Financial
Transaction Infrastructure on Blockchain
https://www.bk.mufg.jp/global/newsroom/news2019/pdf/newse1107.pdf

Insurance Service to Promote Financial Inclusion
https://www.unisys.co.jp/news/nr_190318_Doreming.pdf

Seven Bank, Ltd.

Fraud Detection for Account Opening Using Power Supply

CAULIS INC.

Information

The Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated

https://www.sevenbank.co.jp/corp/news/2019/pdf/2019030601.pdf（In Alphabetical Order）■About FINOLAB Inc.

■About FINOLAB Community

Address：Otemachi 1-6-1, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo

The Fintech Center of Tokyo, FINOLAB is a membership community

Representative：CEO, Chie Itoand an office space located in the heart of international financial

Founded：2019-07-11

district in Tokyo）to promote

Capital：JPY 300 Million

2016 by Mitsubishi Estate and Dentsu Group as the first FinTech

Business Domain ： Promoting FinTech initiatives of Members,Center in Japan. Consists of 56 Startup Members and 17 Corporate

including startups and corporates, and expand FinTech ecosystem

Members (As of Mar. 2020). https://finolab.tokyo/FinTech ecosystem. Launched in Feb.

in Japan.
Web：https://finolab.co.jp/■About FINOVATORS, General Incorporated Association
Non-profit organization, with a group of pro-bono experts（Layer, Investor, Consultant, Analyst, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Banker, Public
Sector Specialist, etc.）for supporting startups. Driving health innovation ecosystem in Japan by activities based on global and future vision,
not limited to any organization or business area. http://finovators.org/【Inquiry for this release】
FINOLAB Ince. (Att. Shibuya, Tachibana)
E-Mail：info@finolab.co.jp＃＃＃