{"id":749,"date":"2021-12-30T09:38:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T02:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alphawaytech.com\/google-acquired-japanese-fintech\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T09:19:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T02:19:57","slug":"google-acquired-japanese-fintech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawaytech.com\/en\/google-acquired-japanese-fintech\/","title":{"rendered":"Google &#8220;acquired&#8221; Japanese Fintech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese media reported,&nbsp;Google is making a foray into financial services in Japan by acquiring Pring Inc, a cashless payments startup, for between 20 and 30 billion yen (about $180 to $270 million). .&nbsp;Nikkei said that Google&#8217;s negotiation to buy Pring Inc aims to help this US &#8220;giant&#8221; provide its own financial services instead of depending on partner banks and issuers. credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cashless payment market in Japan is still relatively young andwpml_nbsphas plenty of room for expansion. &nbsp; According to Nikkei&#8217;s data in 2020, the rate of non-cash payments in retail transactions in Japan was only below 30%,&nbsp; much lower than the 70-90% in South Korea and China.&nbsp;The entry of Google will strengthen the competition in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pring Incwpml_nbsp is headquartered in Tokyo and is controlled by Mizuko Bank.&nbsp; Pring Inc currently provides payment, cash transfer and withdrawal services via smartphones. Pring Inc currently provides payment, cash transfer and withdrawal services via smartphones.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pring Inc currently provides payment, cash transfer and withdrawal services via smartphones. Pring Inc currently provides payment, cash transfer and withdrawal services via smartphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em> Minh Minh<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pring Inc currently provides payment, cash transfer and withdrawal services via smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-alphaway-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawaytech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawaytech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawaytech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawaytech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawaytech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alphawaytech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/alphawaytech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawaytech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawaytech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawaytech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawaytech.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}