{"id":138139,"date":"2020-12-30T08:09:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T23:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=138139&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-12-30T22:13:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T13:13:36","slug":"ffg-gets-approval-for-first-local-online-bank-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/ffg-gets-approval-for-first-local-online-bank-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"FFG Gets Approval for First Local Online Bank in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka Financial Group Inc. obtained a banking license for operating an online bank as of Dec. 22. Services of Minna Bank Ltd., the first online-only bank developed by a local bank group, will become available in May 2021, including smartphone-based loans and payments.<\/span><b> Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20201222\/5010010358.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikkei.com\/article\/DGKKZO67580730S0A221C2LX0000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikkei<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-138162\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ffg-minna-bank.jpg?resize=1024%2C708&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"708\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka Financial Group Inc. obtained a banking license for operating an online bank as of Dec. 22. Services of Minna Bank Ltd., the first online-only bank developed by a local bank group&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":138162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-138139","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/138139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}