【Program Updated】The “Tokyo Financial Award 2020” Award Ceremony will be held on February 8, 2021!

The “Tokyo Financial Award 2020” Award Ceremony will be held on February 8, 2021

In the award ceremony, award winning companies will passionately talk about how much effort they are making to solve the problems and needs related to financial services, and how much they are committed to promoting ESG investment and SDGs management! Also, we announce the title and speaker of lectures and panel discussions about the Financial Innovation, ESG investment, and other fields, so please come and join us.

Financial Innovation Category

After hearing the financial service-related problems that Tokyo residents experience in their daily lives, we will invite proposals for solutions to these problems from financial businesses to award three particularly outstanding winners.

ESG investment Category

This year, we are inviting financial businesses (ESG Investment subcategory) that implement ESG investment promotion activities and businesses (SDGs subcategory) that implement SDGs management initiatives and will award three particularly outstanding businesses in both subcategories.

Overview[Admission is free！]

Date&Time: February 8, 2021 (Mon) 

【Pre-session】13:25-13:58（JST/Planed）

【Part1】14:00-15:10（JST/Planed）

【Part2】15:10-18:00（JST/Planed）

* The time is currently scheduled, so it may be change at the day.

Agenda（Planed）： 

【Pre-session】(Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation is available.)

【Part 1 Award Ceremony】(Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation is available.)

【Part 2 Discussion on Finance in Tokyo】

• FinTech Room　(Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation is available.)
  

  Planned Time	Title	Speaker
  15:10~	Lecture about Financial market in Tokyo（Planned）	Manabu Miyasaka Vice Governor of Tokyo
  15:20~	Structure of Tokyo’s financial markets – Market structure / player	Takafumi Murakami Managing Director, Business Consulting Group Accenture Japan Ltd
  15:35~	Structure of Tokyo’s financial markets – Rakuten Bank’s Innovation Initiatives	Kenichiro Omori Operating officer, General Manager of Service Advancement Headquarters,  Rakuten Bank, Ltd.
  15:45~	Changes in FinTech-related regulations and their impact	Masakazu Masujima Partner, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
  16:10~	Tokyo’s FinTech ecosystem as seen from overseas	Chia Hock Lai Chairman, Singapore FinTech Association (SFA)
  16:30~	Tokyo as seen from overseas venture capital	Takaki Nakamura Partnership Group, Executive Director, Japan team manager, Vertex Holdings
  16:50~	Hot to recruit in Tokyo by experienced person	Peter Haslebacher CEO, APACInsurTech
  17:35~	Panel Discussion　The attractiveness of Tokyo from the perspective of overseas influencers	Syed Musheer Ahmed Co-founder and Board Member, the Fintech Association of Hong Kong Shmuel Ben-Tovim Chairman, CityTLV Nektarios Liolios Veteran FinTech influencer in UK and Europe

• ESG Room (Original Language Only)
  

  Planned Time	Title	Speaker
  15:10~	【Japanese Only】 Definition of ESG investment	Masaru Arai Chair, Japan Sustainable Investment Forum
  15:30~	【English Only】 Leading Examples of ESG Investment in the world	Fiona Reynolds CEO, PRI
  15:40~	【Japanese Only】　Toward ESG Investment expansion in Tokyo – Messages from Past Award Winners	Panelists： Haruhiro Ikezaki Managing Director, Head of Debt Capital Markets Division, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd. Japan Shiro Tsubota President & Representative Director Japan, Robeco Japan Company LTD. Chunmei Huang, Sayaka Takatsuka Senior Director, Impact Investing Team Shinsei Corporate Investment Limited Yoshiyuki Makino Managing Director, Head of Japan Office, S&P Dow Jones Indicies LLC.  Moderator： Yasuyuki Kato Research Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University Visiting Professor, Kyoto University Director, Money Design Research Institute
  16:25~	【Japanese Only】 SDGs management from the perspective of investors	Yasuyuki Kato Research Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University Visiting Professor, Kyoto University Director, Money Design Research Institute

• Winner’s Room (Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation is available.)
  

  Planned Time	Title	Speaker
  15:10~	Development and success of past award-winning companies	Past awerd-winning companies　justInCase,Inc. GLORY LTD. Frich,Inc. Fly Money Technologies LTD 400F Co., Ltd.
  15:40~	Introduction of participating companies this year	Support program participating companies aircrex Block Amour LynksKite(Lynx Analytics) OLTA Inc. Sustainable Lab Inc. Testamento

＊Networking with award awarded companies and other participates will be available.

To attend the Award Ceremony 

Please register now from this link！ https://client.eventhub.jp/ticket/30fUK-6QRS

※Admission is free!

※Simultaneous interpretation between Japanese and English will be available!

We look forward to your joining!