10/2016: GXP Summit: Doreming will be there!

Doreming will be at the GXP Summit from 17th to 18th October.  Doreming’s UK Country Manager Tomo will be speaking at the GXP Summit on Monday 17th October. Tohmatsu Ventures Support have kindly provided a booth for our UK team (Michael and Tomo) to talk with firms at the event, who want to partner and collaborate on helping unbanked adults to have access to employment and financial services.  

10/2016: Interviewed by JETRO London

Doreming’s Social Mission to Help 2B Financial Refugees in the World to be Inclusive of Financial Services   Doreming was interviewed by JETRO London about the business and advancement into the United Kingdom. The interviewer was inspired by our commitment to empower workers away from poverty. The article was published in Japanese on Oct. 4, 2016. https://www.jetro.go.jp/biznews/2016/10/058997744645b391.html   We are going to continue to find people who can share the values and beliefs of our social businesses and vision around the world.

10/2016: Article in NewsPicks about NTT Data’s contest

Doreming Asia – Published by NewsPicks about the Winning of the Grand Prize of Open Innovation Business Contest, hosted by NTT Data   Doreming Asia was awarded by NTT DATA as the best startup company among 55 other startup companies. The judge commented, “Doreming Asia has a social mission with unique concept to accelerate financial inclusion.” NTT DATA determines that there are a lot of exciting opportunities and areas to collaborate with Doreming Asia.   In near future, Doreming Asia is going to closely work with NTT DATA for 3 months to develop a pilot project. NTT DATA plans to provide us with a team of experts and technologies. We are very much excited and keen to work with […]

09/2016: Fintech Summit Tokyo 2016

We are at FinTech Summit in Tokyo from today until Wednesday (20th -21st September 2016).Please come and talk to us at the event. On the first day we presented our business to the audience. 

09/2016: Tech Crunch Disrupt San Francisco 2016

We are at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2016 from today until Wednesday (12th -14th September 2016).Please come and visit us when you have time.We are with NICT, near the Japan Pavilion.

08/2016: Awarded the Grand Prize at NTT DATA’s Contest

There were more than 200 audiences from established IT, Banks, Financial Service providers, investors, startups.In previous competitions, two leading Japanese startups: Money Forward and Freee partnered with NTT DATA to gain access to NTT DATA’s API for online banking platform that connects 500 banks in Japan.

06/2016: Interviewed by TBS TV about BREXIT

Masahiro, the CEO of Doreming, was interviewed by TBS after the wake of the EU BREXIT on Friday at June 24. The interview was on live around 6PM on Monday at June 27.   http://news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_newseye2807643.html  (Note: The link is no more available.)   Masahiro commented that we were very surprised about the result. We do not soon plan to move out from London, but we are concerned that if the EU citizens are going to be restricted to enter freely to the UK, that’s going to slow down business activities in the UK, which will adversely impact on the UK and EU economy. Also, BREXIT gave me a headache about hiring local people […]

06/2016: First Japanese company to be based in “Level39”

We are going to be the first Japanese company to be based in  “Level39” as of 1st June 2016.We have the technology to help to alleviate the poverty and inequality by increasing income of the workers globally (8 intellectual properties)Our business model is  focused on maximizing the benefits of workers. Businesses are micro-lending to workers with interest rate and/or fees, but we are creating an accessible, affordable and efficient system for workers, so they will not be the ones charged.4 people will be based in London. We are starting our business in the multi-national London to contribute to the society by helping to alleviate poverty and inequality. 

04/2016: Innovate Finance Global Summit 2016 at Guildhall

2016/04  Thanks to Innovate Finance, we participated and exhibited in the Financial Inclusion section at the Global Summit 2016 as the first Japanese company.     One of the big themes of this summit was about how we can utilize FinTech to tackle the refugee problem. Since refugees do not have an ID, it is difficult to open a bank account and have a payment card. There could be the case when they cannot wait salary until the payday. At that time, if they use our Payming service that allows individuals to spend up to the earned salary that they have worked, they will be able to buy food. Payming is […]