{"id":141239,"date":"2021-06-25T09:14:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T00:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=141239&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-06-25T09:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T00:14:06","slug":"fukuoka-bank-combines-crowdfunding-and-financing-to-support-local-business","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-bank-combines-crowdfunding-and-financing-to-support-local-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Bank Combines Crowdfunding And Financing To Support Local Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bank of Fukuoka launched a financing-and-crowdfunding project to support local businesses. The new program raises funds from people via \u2018Funds\u2019 investment platform and lends the money to Fukuoka Bank, which takes the credit risk of the project. The first project with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/funds.jp\/fund\/detail\/agorafukuokahilltop01\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AGORA Fukuoka Hilltop Hotel &amp; Spa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has recently begun, with a target fund of \u00a550 million. The new system aims to raise awareness and popularity of project clients among investors. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuokabank.co.jp\/pdf\/20210622_f.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka Bank<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikkei.com\/article\/DGXZQOJC223OR0S1A620C2000000\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikkei<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/prtimes.jp\/main\/html\/rd\/p\/000000108.000023781.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PR Times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-141240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/agora-hotel.jpg?resize=1024%2C536&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/agora-hotel.jpg?resize=1024%2C536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/agora-hotel.jpg?resize=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/agora-hotel.jpg?resize=768%2C402&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/agora-hotel.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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The new program raises funds from people via \u2018Funds\u2019 investment platform and lends the money to Fukuoka Bank&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":141240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-141239","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\/141239","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=141239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}