Paying with PayPay: A Deep Dive into Yahoo! Japan’s Mobile Payment Business
In our previous note, Rakuten Pay Tops the Japanese Cashless War, we suggested that Rakuten Inc (4755 JP) is most likely to walk away as the winner...
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Rakuten Pay Tops the Japanese Cashless War
Readers interested in Japan's payments/cashless future should refer Michael Causton's excellent work in Who Will Win the Cashless Wars in...
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Japan Banks – Unloved for Many Reasons
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) offers negative interest rates on monies deposited. Japan’s banks are largely wholesale, with lumpy corporate loans and in...
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Michinoku Bank (8350 JP): Clipped by a Synthetic Hedge
With just three weeks to go before the formal announcement of their FY3/2019 results, it is high time that some of the smaller Japanese regional...
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Japanese Banks: Beyond the Ides of March
“Beware the Ides of March”: the soothsayer’s repeated warning to ancient Rome’s most famous emperor in William Shakespeare’s play ‘Julius Caesar’. ...
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