Data Sandboxing Program
Innovation Partners
AWS
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers-including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies-are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. AWS also has significantly more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider-from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases-to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. This makes it faster, easier, and more cost effective to move your existing applications to the cloud and build nearly anything you can imagine. |
NVIDIA
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NVIDIA develops and sells GPUs that create interactive graphics on desktop PCs, workstations, and game consoles. In recent years, NVIDIA has been leading the market as a manufacturer of GPUs as both a general-purpose computing platform and an essential platform for HPC and AI, taking advantage of the high-speed parallel processing capability that GPUs are known for. As the data generated by online services and mobile/IoT devices grows in size and the complexity of effective analytical models increases, the need to accelerate computational processing through GPU use is increasing in industries such as finance, manufacturing, retail, and healthcare. In the financial sector, applications for predicting stock price, backtesting investment strategies, and detecting fraudulent transactions are being implemented on GPUs using RAPIDS and other GPU-accelerated Python-based machine learning libraries and deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. NVIDIA provides containers and other resources to build GPU-accelerated applications for various industries through its NGC portal. By providing on-site support for everything from software to hardware, NVIDIA uses GPUs to solve problems that cannot be solved by traditional computing methods. |
Japan Alternative Data Accelerator Association
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Japan Alternative Data Accelerator Association is working to promote the use of alternative data to develop the asset management ecosystem. Although alternative data is being utilized globally, its use in Japan is limited to a few financial institutions, and it is far from being widely utilized. In order to promote the use of alternative data, there are numerous issues that individual companies are limited in their ability to address, such as consolidating regulations, standardizing data transfer methods, and training financial data analysts. In order to form a sound alternative data ecosystem, it is necessary to establish a system in which industry and academia work together to address a number of issues, including identifying use cases within the industry, establishing common guidelines for data transactions, and defining a roadmap and skills for human resource development. Against this backdrop, many organizations, including financial institutions, data providers, and data analytics companies, have joined together to form the Japan Alternative Data Accelerator Association, and we hope to achieve results in a coordinated effort to further advance the asset management industry. We sincerely look forward to your participation. |
QUICK
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At QUICK, we gather enormous quantities of data and news pertaining to equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, commodities, derivatives, corporations and other information from around the world, supporting customer financial and capital market-related decision making with value-added proprietary analysis and valuations. As a member of the Nikkei Group, we deliver innovative and valuable financial information services that meet everyone’s needs, from investment professionals to individual investors. |
StartupGoGo
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Startup GoGo is a startup support community based in Fukuoka, Japan. In 2014, we held our first startup event “Startup Go! Go!”, and it has now become one of the largest startup events in Kyushu with 1,200 participants and participating startups from Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and other countries. We also conduct open innovation programs with Nishitetsu, Toppan Inc., and other companies and operate the accelerator program "UpDraft", among other things. In April 2019, the group’s venture capital firm “GxPartners LLP” started its investment business. |
FINOLAB
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FINOLAB was established in Otemachi, Tokyo, one of the world's leading international financial centers, as a center for fintech innovation. In order to facilitate the formation of a fintech ecosystem in Japan, we are committed to the nurturing of our 50 startup members along with accelerating open innovation with our 20 corporate members. With the support of FINOVATORS, a mentoring organization that can provide professional advice, we are working with financial institutions and players in various industries to promote a "Finance of Tomorrow" and "Mashup of Fintech and Other Industries" to support the establishment and growth of fintech startups, which are more difficult to start and grow than ordinary tech ventures due to licensing, legal regulations, industry customs, and other factors. We hope that the new services and solutions that we create will become global standards. |
FinGATE
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FinGATE is an incubation service for financial venture companies operated by Heiwa Real Estate Co., Ltd. FinGATE provides financial venture companies, primarily those in asset management, with infrastructure (such as small offices and shared meeting rooms), business matching support, and support for incorporation and financial business registration through alliances with middle and back office service providers. Heiwa Real Estate Co., Ltd. is promoting the revitalization of the Nihonbashi Kabutocho and Kayabacho districts as part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's initiative to create a "Global Financial City: Tokyo" and is working, through this and other initiatives, to contribute to the advancement and diversification of the asset management business and the growth of fintech companies. |
Moneytree
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Moneytree aims to connect people, companies, and financial institutions, provide various services for better personal asset building, and build a platform that people can trust. Founded in Japan in 2012, Moneytree began offering its Moneytree service for the one-stop management of personal financial assets in 2013 and launched its MT LINK financial platform for businesses, which is now recognized as a standard API in the financial and accounting industry, in 2015. |
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- ･Company names are listed in Japanese alphabetical order.
Data Partners
INTERTRADE
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INTERTRADE is a software house founded by former securities company employees for the purpose of building systems for financial institutions. Our history began with the company’s establishment in 1999, and since then we have mainly developed sell-side stock trading solutions. After expanding our business, we started building solutions for proprietary trading systems (PTS) in 2005 and solutions for FX in 2007. Then in 2016, we began work on the Spider construction project, our magnum opus. Spider holds the potential to make a major, qualitative and quantitative paradigm shift in the business sector and has created many new business opportunities for financial service providers. In recent years, the role of systems in financial instruments trading has become increasingly important. It is precisely because we live in such an era that we must go back to the basics and ask ourselves what finance and trading are all about. With that in mind, we will continue to provide useful solutions for start-up companies.
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xignite
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Xignite Makes Market Data Easy. Xignite delivers real-time, intraday, end-of-day, historical and market and reference data through cloud-based REST APIs to more than 800 FinTech, financial services, media and software companies. Xignite sources our data direct from more than 250 exchanges and data providers. You can easily access integrated data sets for millions of instruments across all asset classes with the global identifiers you use today (CUSIP, ISIN, SEDOL, etc.). Xignite APIs include test forms that you can use to customize your REST requests and see the response instantly in JSON, XML or CSV. We also provide sample code specific to each API. Xignite serves an astonishing nine billion API requests each day. Running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Xignite was one of the first market data distribution offerings available on the public cloud. We have achieved both the AWS Financial Services Competency and Advanced Technology Partner status. |
QUICK
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QUICK Corp. (QUICK), has played a key role in the information infrastructure that supports Japan's securities and financial markets since its establishment in 1971. QUICK Data Factory, QUICK’s data catalog site, offers a wide range of data on Japan’s financial markets. It provides data for the Data Sandboxing Program, such as stock prices, earnings results, and corporate action of listed companies in Japan, which is necessary for investment decisions. |
FACTSET
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FactSet (Securities Code: FDS) provides world-class analytical tools, client services, data, and technology and the support to use them efficiently to more than 126,000 users. Our unique entity-centric data model maps various security codes to entities and aggregates various content to ensure consistency, transparency, and integrity. In the Data Sandboxing Program, we offer four types of content that cover global corporations and are widely used by users around the world: financial results, earnings estimates, reference data, and English transcripts of earnings release minutes. |
Moneytree
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Moneytree aims to connect people, companies, and financial institutions, provide various services for better personal asset building, and build a platform that people can trust. Founded in Japan in 2012, Moneytree began offering its Moneytree service for the one-stop management of personal financial assets in 2013 and launched its MT LINK financial platform for businesses, which is now recognized as a standard API in the financial and accounting industry, in 2015. |
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- ･Company names are listed in Japanese alphabetical order.