JFIA 2023 Overview
JFIA was inaugurated in the year 2020 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. JFIA2023 consists of 3 categories, including Startup, Financial Institution, and Collaboration. FINOLAB, the FinTech Center of Tokyo, administrated the evaluation process by extracting more than 300 innovative initiatives from press releases during the year 2022. And candidates and winners were selected by a group of professionals, FINOVATORS, based on the criteria of innovation, growth, and transformation. Further judgment is scheduled on Mar. 10 at “Future Frontier Fes by FINOLAB (4F) 2023.”
Title
Japan Financial Innovation Award 2023 Ceremony
(at Future Frontier Fes by FINOLAB )
Date and Time
Mar. 10, 2023, 10:00AM – 12:00AM (JST)
Host
FINOLAB Inc.
Supported by
FINOVATORS
Language
Japanese
Admission
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 2023
Grand Prix and Category Excellence
Grand Prix
Remarks :
The card program was highly evaluated for its efforts to visualize CO2 emissions through purchasing activities using the credit card in daily life and to raise users’ awareness of environmental issues.
Startup Category Excellence
Remarks :
The automation of corporate checks, required at the time of starting transactions, would lead to the efficiency and improvement of the back office.
Financial Institution Category Excellence
No Winner
Collaboration Category Excellence
Remarks :
We face various problems when insurance users lose track of their policies or when family members do not even know the policyholder in the event of an inheritance. Their collaboration in building and operating a policy management platform to solve these problems are expected to eliminate insurance claims leakage.
JFIA 2023 Winners
Startup
Financial Institution
Collaboration
*In order of announced dater
MOVIE
JUDGES
Masakazu
MASUJIMA
FINOVATORS Founder & President
The chairman
Mitsunobu
OKUBO
FINOVATORS Founder
Toshio
TAKI
FINOVATORS Founder
Tatsuto
FUJII
FINOVATORS Founder
Yusuke
MANABE
FINOVATORS Member
*The order of the Japanese syllabary after the chairman.
