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Tokyo Financial Award 2021: The Winning Businesses Have Been Chosen
As part of our “Global Financial City: Tokyo” Vision 2.0, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) is hosting the Tokyo Financial Award. The awa recognizes financial businesses that develop and provide innovative financial products and services that contribute to solving the problems and meeting the needs of the people and businesses in Tokyo, as well as businesses that promote ESG investment.
We are pleased to announce that the award-winning companies have been selected. The Award Ceremony that can be viewed online and is open to everyone.
1 Award-winning Businesses
Financial Innovation Category
Place | Company(location) | Theme | Outline of proposed service |
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1st | G-Bank technologies OÜ(Estonia) | Service that can manage financial assets collectively, such as bank accounts, insurance, securities, inheritance, etc. |
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2nd | Caulis Inc.(Japan) | Services to prevent financial crimes, such as strengthened security |
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3rd | Tractable Ltd.(UK) | Simpler procedures for insurance |
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ESG Investment Category
Company(location) | Outline of initiatives |
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【The Governor's Special Prize for Green Finance*1】 Daiwa Asset Management Co. Ltd. (Japan) |
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Nomura Holdings, Inc. (Japan) |
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SBICAP Ventures Limited(India) |
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*1 The Governor's Special Prize for Green Finance, a new award created this fiscal year, will be awarded to a business from the ESG Investment Category that is particularly outstanding in its green finance initiatives.
2 Regarding Award Ceremony (Planned)
Date and Time
Monday, February 7, 2022 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm (Japan Standard Time)
How to apply
To view the ceremony online, please register via the link (External link) (Applications on the day of the event are accepted)
Program
Japanese-to-English simultaneous interpretation available
- Introduction of the Tokyo Financial Award
- Presentations from awarded companies
- Comment from the chair of the selection committee
Details will be posted at the Tokyo Financial Award website once they are decided:
*The Award Ceremony will be followed by online presentations from 13 companies (excluding the 3 award winners) who passed the preliminary screening of the Tokyo Financial Award Financial Innovation Category from among 88 applicants (scheduled for 3:40 pm - 4:45 pm and held completely online). To view these presentations, please make sure to register via the link above.
3 Selection Committee
Financial Innovation Category | ESG Investment Category | |
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Committee Chair | YAMAOKA Hiromi Board Director, Future Corporation |
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Committee Members | OE Kayo President, Office Libertas; Financial Planner |
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UCHIYAMA Tomonori Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University |
ARAI Masaru Chair, Japan Sustainable Investment Forum |
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SAKAMOTO Shinsuke Managing Director, Japan Venture Capital Association |
Eva Halvarsson Board member, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)*2 |
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MASUJIMA Masakazu Partner, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto (law firm) |
KATO Yasuyuki Adjunct Professor, Kyoto UniversityDirector, Money Design Research InstituteResearch Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University |
*2 PRI are the principles advocated by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006 for the purpose of realizing a sustainable society and for institutional investors to incorporate environmental, social and governance issues into investment decision-making as well as the organization to disseminate these principles.
For more information, please visit the Tokyo Financial Award website.
*Please click here for the original Japanese article.
For Inquiries
Strategic Projects Section, Strategy Promotion Division, Office for Startup and Global Financial City Strategy
E-mail: S1130103@section.metro.tokyo.jp
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