Tokyo Fintech Industry Collaboration Infrastructure Development Subsidy

(1) Overview: Under the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's "Global Financial City: Tokyo" vision, the Bureau of Industrial and Labor Affairs supports fintech industry growth. This subsidy promotes the creation and dissemination of explanatory materials (guidebooks, handbooks) summarizing the requirements and know-how for collaboration between fintech firms and financial institutions, to accelerate social implementation of digital financial services. (2) Target applicants: Operators and industry associations that prepare such explanatory materials on fintech–financial-institution collaboration requirements and disseminate them externally for industry-wide adoption. Specific legal forms and scale follow the official guidelines. (3) Eligible expenses: (a) costs to produce the explanatory materials (writing, editing, design, printing, supervision), and (b) promotion costs (seminars, advertising, website production). (4) Rate, ceiling, schedule: Subsidy rate up to 1/2; ceiling 10 million JPY per case. Three FY2026 windows — Phase 1 2026-04-08 to 2026-07-17; Phase 2 2026-07-21 to 2026-09-11; Phase 3 2026-09-14 to 2027-01-29. Phases 2 and 3 may be cancelled if the budget cap is reached. Apply via Jグランツ or mail/in-person to the International Financial City Promotion Section (Shinjuku, Tokyo).