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2018

Overseas financial companies attracted to Tokyo in fiscal year 2018 are as follows.
*Company information will be uploaded when publication becomes possible.

   CompanyName      Dymon Asia Capital (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
Type of office Research/Sales base
Office locaiton area Central Tokyo/Waterfront area
Office setup timing The first half of FY2019 (scheduled)
Business Overview Dymon Asia Capital is a leading Asia focused alternative investment fund manager founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Singapore with core offices in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. The firm also opened its Tokyo office in 2019. Dymon Asia's main strategies include discretionary global macro, Asia-focused long-short equity, South-East Asian focused private equity and venture capital.
CompanyURL https://www.dymonasia.com/
   CompanyName      Fifth Quarter Asset Management (UK) Limited
Type of office Sales base
Office locaiton area Central Tokyo/Waterfront area
Office setup timing The second half of FY2019 (scheduled)
Business Overview The asset manager who mainly invests in commodities will establish a marketing base in Tokyo to enhance their marketing activity in Japan by provision of advises on institutional investor's portfolio.
CompanyURL http://www.thefqgroup.com/
   CompanyName      Fund Singapore Pte. Ltd.
Type of office Sales base
Office locaiton area Central Tokyo/Waterfront area
Office setup timing The second half of FY2018 (scheduled)
Business Overview The company which invests in SMEs, startups and corporate will establish a crowdfunding platform enabling access to debt and equity-based crowdfunded securities. This allows institutional and individual investors to participate using smaller investment amounts.
CompanyURL https://www.fundsingapore.com.sg/home
   CompanyName      HedgeSPA Pte. Ltd.
Type of office Sales base
Office locaiton area Central Tokyo/Waterfront area
Office setup timing The second half of FY2019 (scheduled)
Business Overview HedgeSPA offers an investment analytics platform, which automates processes of constructing and managing investment products: from asset selection to portfolio rebalancing to execution to reporting. Its unique Artificial Intelligence, Big Data engine and multi-scenario optimization methodology can achieve steady upside and mitigate drawdown by identifying tail-risk, while reducing implementation cost and user resource requirement by an order of magnitude.
CompanyURL https://www.hedgespa.com/
   CompanyName      Onfido Ltd.
Type of office Sales base
Office locaiton area Central Tokyo/Waterfront area
Office setup timing The second half of FY2019 (scheduled)
Business Overview Onfido's vision is an open world where identity is the key to access. Onfido verifies the world's identities using AI and biometrics, through a single, simple API and SDK. Onfido verifies the authenticity of identity documents and the owner of the document, making online identity verification as easy as taking a photo or video of an identity document and face. Onfido's technology helps global businesses, including banks and fintech companies, onboard more users while driving down risk and fraud.
CompanyURL https://onfido.com/
   CompanyName      Privé Services Limited
Type of office Sales base
Office locaiton area Central Tokyo/Waterfront area
Office setup timing The second half of FY2019 (scheduled)
Business Overview Privé Services provides a digitized wealth management platform, which supports financial institutions' investment advisory service. Privé Services' patented and proprietary AI algorithm suggests the most suitable financial products for each customer by analyzing a customer's data, such as his or her investment goals and portfolio performance. It also monitors the risk of customer's assets and notify the necessity of rebalancing, if necessary. Financial institutions can also digitally transform to reduce the cost of advisory service and provide personalized financial advisory service to a wider segment of their customer base.
CompanyURL https://www.privetechnologies.com/
   CompanyName      simplesurance GmbH
Type of office Sales base
Office locaiton area Central Tokyo/Waterfront area
Office setup timing The second half of FY2018 (scheduled)
Business Overview simplesurance provides simple access to insurance by integrating a cross-selling software solution to e-commerce and fintech providers. The integration enables the providers to offer added value to their customers by offering insurance on top of the product directly in the shopping cart - transparent, fast and easy.
CompanyURL https://www.simplesurance.com/
   CompanyName      Tikehau Investment Management
Type of office Sales base
Office locaiton area Central Tokyo area (Otemachi or Marunouchi area)
Office setup timing The first half of FY2019 (scheduled)
Business Overview Tikehau Capital is a pan-European Alternative Asset manager and investor specialized in private debt, real estate, private equity and liquid strategies benefitting from a global presence. Tikehau Capital will establish a sales office in Tokyo to enhance the sales activities to Japanese institutional investors. In future, Tikehau Capital plans to include research function to invest in Japanese SMEs and connect these SMEs to its strong European and Asian business network.
CompanyURL https://www.tikehaucapital.com/en
   CompanyName      Value Partners Group Limited
Type of office Sales base
Office locaiton area Central Tokyo area (Otemachi or Marunouchi area)
Office setup timing The first half of FY2019 (scheduled)
Business Overview One of the Asia's largest independent asset manager, Value Partners specializes in value investment in the Asian market, especially China. The company will establish a client management base in Tokyo to enhance its relations with clients through partners in Japan.
CompanyURL https://www.valuepartners-group.com/en/
   CompanyName      ZAPPYAI LIMITED
Type of office Sales base
Office locaiton area Central Tokyo/Waterfront area
Office setup timing The second half of FY2019 (scheduled)
Business Overview Provides the software which automatically identifies and executes repetitive business operation in financial institutions. Its machine learning engine monitors employees' behavior on business terminals to continuously identify automatable repetitive tasks and how much of resource is spent on each operation process. Since it reduces the time and labor costs of operation analysis at planning phase, financial institutions could lower the implementation cost and reduce delivery time compared to existing process automation software's and expand the scope of automating operation processes.
CompanyURL https://zappy.ai/