AWARD CEREMONY

The Tokyo Financial Award 2023 Awards Ceremony was held on Tuesday, March 5th, 2024, honoring the recipients in the Financial Innovation and ESG Investment categories.

The archived video of the event can be viewed from the link below.
 Original Audio(Japanese and English mixed)
 Japanese Audio (Translated)
 English Audio (Translated)

Agenda
Please see below for presentation materials and demonstration videos from the award-winning companies.
Time Agenda Speaker
13:00
-13:03
Opening Ceremony
13:03
-13:08
Tokyo: Realizing a Global Financial Center
  Presentation Materials (Click here)
YOSHIMURA Keiichi - Director General of the Office for Startup and Global Financial City Strategy, Tokyo Metropolitan Government
13:08
-14:10
Financial Innovation Category Presentation: 3rd place
Inovat Ltd.
  Presentation material (Click here)
  Demo video (Click here)
Ilya Melkumov
Inovat Ltd. - CEO
Financial Innovation Category Presentation: 2nd place
Credit Engine, Inc.
  Presentation material (Click here)
  Demo video (Click here)
NIIRO Kenichiro 
Credit Engine, Inc. - COO
Financial Innovation Category Presentation: 1st place
Toggle GK
  Presentation material (Click here)
  Demo Video (Click here
Jim Lee
Toggle GK. - CEO
Financial Innovation Category, Judging Comments YAMAOKA Hiromi
Future Corporation. - Board Director and Group CSO
International Finance, Tokyo Metropolitan Government. - Special Advisor
ESG Investment Category Award Winner Presentation
ANRI Inc.
  Presentation material (Click here)
SAMATA Anri
ANRI, Inc. - CEO
ESG Investment Category Award Winner Presentation
Nature Innovation Inc
  Presentation material (Click here)
MARUKAWA Shoji
Nature Innovation Group, Inc. - CEO
ESG Investment Category Award Winner Presentation
TBM Inc.
  Presentation material (Click here)
HATORI Tokuro
TBM Co., Ltd. -Executive Officer CSuO, General Manager, Sustainability Department
ESG Investment Category, Green Finance Governor’s Award Winner Presentation
Kayrros SAS
  Presentation materia (Click here)
Niklas Huppmann
Kayrros SAS
Business Development & Product Manager
ESG Investment Category, Judging Comments
Lecture “Global trends surrounding International Financial cities and Tokyo”
  Presentation material (Click here)
YAMAOKA Hiromi
Future Corporation. - Board Director and Group CSO
International Finance, Tokyo Metropolitan Government. - Special Advisor
14:10
-14:25
Greetings from the Governor of Tokyo
Award Ceremony and Commemorative Photo
・KOIKE Yuriko – Governor of Tokyo
・Award winning companies
15:25 Closing Ceremony

After the award ceremony, presentations were held by 11 fintech companies (excluding 3 awardees) that passed the preliminary screening among the 117 applicants in the Tokyo Financial Award’s Financial Innovation Category. The audience voted for the company they deemed most innovative, to select the “Audience Award”.

The Audience Award 2023 Winner:Cycaltrust, inc.
The presentation material of the Audience Award winner can be viewed hrer.
The archive videos of the presentations by the 11 companies can be viewed from the link below.
 Original Audio (Japanese and English mixed)
 Japanese Audio (Translated)
 English Audio (Translated)


Photographs from Award Ceremony
  • Tokyo Financial Award Group Photo(Award winners (7 companies), YAMAOKA Hiromi - Chairperson of the Jury, Judges、KOIKE Yuriko - Governor of Tokyo、YOSHIMURA Keiichi - Director General of the Office for Startup and Global Financial City Strategy, Tokyo Metropolitan Government)

  • Speech by KOIKE Yuriko – Governor of Tokyo

  • Introduction by YOSHIMURA Keiichi - Director General of the Office for Startup and Global Financial City Strategy, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

  • Judging Comments and Lecture by YAMAOKA Hiromi - Chairperson of the Jury

  • Inovat Ltd.
    Presentation by Ilya Melkumov

  • Credit Engine, Inc.
    Presentation by NIIRO Kenichiro

  • Toggle GK
    Presentation by Jim Lee

  • ANRI Inc.
    Presentation by SAMATA Anri

  • Nature Innovation Group Inc.
    Presentation by MARUKAWA Shoji

  • TBM Co., Ltd.
    Presentation by HATORI Tokuro

  • Kayrros SAS
    Presentation by Niklas Huppmann

  • (Left) Cycaltrust, Inc. Audience Award Ceremony