We support to expand your Fintech market in Japan

As a company of global experts specializing in IT solutions, InfoEx transcends borders to supply services and ideas, as well as monetary and human resources. The Japanese market is relatively difficult and it is essential to have a proper understanding of it to make an effective business plan to achieve profitability while at the same time reducing risks and operating costs.

With our market entry services we help foreign companies settling into the Japanese market to achieve substantial sales and profits within a reasonable period of 2 to 3 years. Our services include marketing and market research, sales, business development pipeline, as well as translation and localization. InfoEx adopts a customized approach, and individually makes the content of service based on the hearing of our client's needs.


Track record:

We had been supported CGI (Logica) for more than 8 years as their representative office after they had closed down their office in Tokyo. Even though the CGI(Logica) telecom division had closed down their branch office in Tokyo, their sales have increased threefold within three years as CGI finance package business by using InfoEx Corporation as representative agent.

In 2014, we started to support Pegasystem's Japan market entry and CEO (Hiroshi Asao) worked as Sales of Pega Japan in order to sell their main services to Japanese financial institutions. By knowing the way of thinking of the Japanese FS's specific and conservative world, it was possible to succeed to sell the Pega development platform (Pega7) including RPA to the Japanese Mega Banks within one year which radiated to their branch companies within the next year.

In 2017-2018, we have supported JDA's contracts with big companies in Japan such as Aeon, JR, Nagatanien, Coca-Cola, Shiseido, SONY and many others.


CHALLENGES

Starting a business abroad comes with a variety of risks and challenges, especially during the initial phase. With our expertise we will help you to overcome those difficulties and provide services that help reducing those risks substantially.

Uncertain operating costs (at least $500K - $1M / year):
Determining operating costs in an unknown environment without the help of local experts is hardly possible and will rarely produce reliable results. Combined with the fact that it will mostly take some time to generate sufficient revenue it will be especially difficult to forecast a budget for the initial phase.

Japanese regulation and rules:
Official regulations can differ/vary greatly from country to country, including cases that may come into play completely unexpected. Entering a foreign market without the proper knowledge about its regulations can easily jeopardize your business.

Employees (Recruiting): Finding highly skilled bilingual employees that are the perfect fit for your new branch can be a time consuming task, that is especially difficult if you are hiring in a distant location.

Language barrier:
Even though the use of English globally has become more and more common over the years, it can not be granted that all of your potential business partners will be able to communicate in english without problem. It is always a great advantage to be able to make communications in Japanese to avoid miscommunications and other problems.


SERVICES

HR services
With our recruiting services we help you find the perfect candidates for your business in Japan from within the country, saving your time and effort during the hiring process, as well as reducing the risk to hire people that turn out not to be what you were looking for.
(For more information on global HR check our "RECRUITMENT" section on this website)

Marketing
We will be creating advertising material for your products and services in Japanese and making it reach the right recipients including materials, ads, and communications All the while ensuring that everything meets the local standards.

Market research
We will research potential customers and, with advice and opinions from the concerning fields, decide on the best way to approach them. This service also includes making a sales strategy that is fitting for you. (Training, Bundle solutions, etc.)

Business development pipeline We will work on finding the right people as potential customers for your product/ business, including potential distributors and resellers. We will also directly approach big companies to work with/for direct sales.

Sales
Next to preparing and updating sales materials in japanese we will actively monitor and follow up your sales activities in Japan.

Translation/localisation
Next to the aforementioned preparations of materials in Japanese and the communications we will carry out on behalf of you, we also offer general translation and localisation services. That includes the translation of your website and labelling of your products among other things.