JFIA 2022 Overview
JFIA was inaugurated last year to promote innovative initiatives in the financial area by adopting information technology and sharing best practices in the industry, and expects to further expand open innovation beyond the corporate group and business sector. JFIA2022 consists of 3 categories, including Startup, Financial Institution, and Collaboration. FINOLAB, the FinTech Center of Tokyo, administrated the evaluation process by extracting about 500 innovative initiatives from press releases during the year 2021. Final candidates and winners were selected by a group of professionals, FINOVATORS, based on the judging on innovation, growth, and transformation. Further Judgment is scheduled on Mar. 9 at “Future Frontier Fes by FINOLAB (4F) 2022.”
Title
Japan Financial Innovation Award 2022 Ceremony
(at Future Frontier Fes by FINOLAB )
Date and Time
Mar. 9, 2022, 17:30PM – 20:00PM (JST)
Host
FINOLAB Inc.
Co-Host
FINOVATORS
Language
Japanese
Admission
Free
Channel
YouTube FINOLAB CHANNEL
Future Frontier Fes by FINOLAB (4F)
“4F” is an annual event for various stakeholders of financial innovation to gather and discuss their future action. There, the JFIA Award Ceremony, FINOPITCH (a pitch contest by domestic and foreign startups) and its award ceremony, various lectures, keynote speeches and panel discussions are held. It started in 2020 with the aim of becoming a participatory festival where stakeholders of innovation can share their experience and information, as opposed to a conventional conference.
JFIA 2022
Grand Prix and Category Excellence
Grand Prix
Remarks :
In addition to their drastic decision to adopt their core banking system on public cloud environment, they devoted themselves to digitally transform their business operation. And their overall approach was highly evaluated by the judge panel.
Startup Category Excellence
No Winner
Financial Institution Category Excellence
Remarks :
Their effort to overcome traditional group boundary for providing integrated asset management service was the key reason for the award.
Collaboration Category Excellence
Remarks :
The bank implementing BaaS (Banking as a Service) for the home electronics mass retailer showed us the new model of collaboration.
JFIA 2022 Winners
Financial Institution
Collaboration
*In order of announced dater
MOVIE
JUDGES
Masakazu
MASUJIMA
FINOVATORS Founder & President
The chairman
Mitsunobu
OKUBO
FINOVATORS Founder
Takahisa
OHIRA
FINOVATORS Member
Toshio
TAKI
FINOVATORS Founder
Tatsuto
FUJII
FINOVATORS Founder
*The order of the Japanese syllabary after the chairman.
