Tokyo FinTech is excited to welcome Simone Maini, Chief Operating Officer, and Ken Yagami, Japan Country Manager, of leading crypto forensic company Elliptic to our last meetup in January.

Elliptic was founded in October 2013 in London. It now has also offices in New York City and Washington, D.C......and Japan! Elliptic won the ISID Award at the prestigious Financial Innovation Business Conference (FIBC) in Tokyo in March 2019.

Elliptic has appointed Ken Yagami as the Japan Country Head in November 2019. After a long and successful trading career with Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America Merril Lynch, Ken is well known in the crypto community through his most recent leadership role as the CEO Japan and Head of Asia for SwissBorg.

Leading up to Ken’s appointment, Elliptic has raised USD 23m in a Series B funding round led by SBI Holdings, a Japanese financial institution which has been trialing an XRP-powered store settlement payments app. The funding round also included Santander InnoVentures. The raise was explicitly done to facilitate Asia expansion, with a focus on opening new offices in Singapore and Tokyo.

Elliptic’s main product is Discovery — built on data, collected since its inception, Discovery offers a broad range of identifiers and risk indicators to allow banks to identify and assess the risk posed by their exposure to crypto-assets through exchanges. This includes information about these businesses’ corporate entities, jurisdiction, regulatory status, compliance policies as well as blockchain insights into the provenance of crypto-assets that they have handled.

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