Quick Guide to the Subsidy Program for Foreign Financialcompanies, etc., Establishing a Base in Osaka City
This subsidy program covers part of the expenses for a preliminary survey conducted witha view to starting operations in Osaka and for establishment of a base.
① Preliminarysurvey② Baseestablishment

Maximum subsidy amount:¥ 1,100,000

50% of expenses to be subsidized
Maximum subsidy amount:¥ 10,000,000* Each foreign financial companies, etc., can apply only once for each of subsidy types ① and ②.
Definition of “foreign financial companies, etc.”
The term “foreign financial companies, etc.,” denotes Japanese and overseas companies
that are in the kinds of businesses approved as suitable by the Governor of Osaka
Prefecture from among fintech-related businesses (to provide innovative financial services
utilizing IT, including AI and blockchains) and businesses of asset management, investment
advisory and agency, and other businesses related to asset management (hereinafter,collectively the “financial business”)* Has no business location in Osaka Prefecture at the time of prior consultation* Companies that already operate in any Japanese prefecture other than Osaka
Prefecture also can apply for these subsidies.
* Companies should have business track record in the country where it isheadquartered in the case of an overseas company or in Japan in the case of aJapanese company for at least two years before the application date.
Requirements for eligibility for the subsidies
Expenses to be subsidized
Being motivated to complete base(1) Rents for the business location
Preliminary
establishment in Osaka City no later than(2) Initial costs for renting the businesssurveyone year after the application datelocation・Having established a base in Osaka
City within the same fiscal year as theyear in whichthe company fulfills therequirements.
(1) Rents for the business location
・Meeting all requirements (1) to (4)(2) Initial costs for renting the businessbelowlocation(1) Has rented a facility to be used as(3) Expenses for purchasing office
the business location of its financial
Baseequipment, supplies, etc. for thebusinessbusiness location
establishment(2) Has registered under the(4) Expenses for consulting with lawyers
Commercial Registration Act or theand other experts about theCompanies Act
establishment of the business location(3) Has recruited one or more full-time(5) Expenses for recruitment
employees necessary for
operations at the business location(4) Has already obtained required
licenses, if any, and has started thefinancial business* This subsidy program covers only expenses that are paid after the date of prior consultation and it
covers expenses paid between April 1 of the fiscal year of the application and the application date or
January 31, whichever is earlier.
* This subsidy program does not apply to any expenses paid to government bodies or expenses coveredby other public subsidy programs, and these amounts do not include consumption taxes or regional
consumption taxes.

Procedure for subsidy application

Prior consultation
Consulting with the Osaka Global
Finance One-Stop Support Center
and Osaka Prefecture/Osaka City
government

The application should be made within the same fiscal year as
the year in which the company fulfills the requirements.

Qualified therequirements• Preliminary survey• Base establishment(contract and payment)

Subsidy
application

・Payment request for

Deadline: February 15

subsidy・Approval of subsidy(with exceptions)Prior consultation is required. In any case, please contact the Support Center for an appointment.

Notes


Prior consultation with the Osaka Global Finance One-Stop Support
Center and the Osaka Prefecture/Osaka City government is a mandatory
step toward subsidy application. First please contact the Support Center.

Every year during the two-year period, those recipients must submit abusiness activity report no later than three months from the same date as thesubsidy approval date. (Companies must submit a Business Activity Report
every year.)
The application deadline is February 15.
(If an applicant for a subsidy on base establishment misses the deadline forreasons not attributable to the applicant but meets all requirements afterFebruary 15, the application will be accepted by March 15 as an exception.)Osaka Global Finance One-Stop Support Center
Room K829, 8th Floor, Knowledge Capital Collaboration Office, Grand Front Osaka North Building,
3-1 Ofukacho, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka, Japan
f-onestop@global-financial-city-osaka.jp+81-(0)6-6136-3524
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