Fintech
As technology continues to grow in importance as a business issue, we leverage our experience with financial institutions to provide a wide range of legal services related to FinTech. Our firm includes several lawyers who have worked closely with FinTech companies, and we make sure to maintain a thorough understanding of current developments in FinTech-related business, service, technology and legal issues.Our clients in FinTech-related work include both Japanese and foreign financial institutions and listed companies, FinTech companies, startups, and local and regional governments. We provide them with legal advice and opinions, assist with communications and filings with regulators, and draft contracts and terms and conditions of use, concerning payments, settlements, remittances, stablecoin, household financial planning, asset management, crowdfunding, lending, InsurTech and DLT.
In businesses using FinTech, issues arise in many areas of financial regulation, including the Payment Services Act, the Banking Act, the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, the Insurance Business Act, the Money Lending Business Act, the Act on the Provision of Financial Services, and the Installment Sales Act, as well as in other areas of law, regulation, and compliance, such as AML, cybersecurity, IT, intellectual property and data privacy. By collaborating with our lawyers with expertise in the relevant field, we provide our clients in FinTech-related work with one-stop full service to resolve legal issues.