FINALIST outside of Japan

Estonia

GIG-A provides a platform for financial services to improve the lives of international workers in Japan. We use digital banking technology to provide one-stop financial services such as bank account opening and remittance services, which are usually offered in Japanese, in the users’ native languages and contributes to the expansion of financial inclusion of foreigners in Japan

Raul Allikivi is Estonian serial entrepreneur who has long engaged in promoting the relationship between Estonia and Japan. He served from 2007 to 2012 as Deputy Director General at Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of the Republic of Estonia. In 2012, he founded a consultancy named ESTASIA, in 2013 craft beer import business Biiru and he was also Co-Founder of Planetway Europe, company that brought Estonian e-government technology X-road to Japan. Raul co-founded G-Bank Technologies OÜ/株式会社GIG-A in 2021 and is going to launch a new service in summer of 2022 to improve financial inclusion of foreigners in Japan.