Capital Markets Blockchains 2016

Masato Kaneda is a Joint General Manager, leads the Incubation Project Team, a company-wide initiative focusing on leveraging new technologies to develop innovative business services and financial products. Specifically, he is looking into how to access emerging and established fintechs to leverage their ideas and state-of-the art technologies as part of Mizuho's digital innovation strategy. Masato has gained extensive business development experience both in investment and commercial banking. He worked in the Hong Kong offices where he was responsible for corporate and investment banking. While in the Tokyo office, he gained experience in project finance, acquisition finance, M&A, derivatives, new banking and payment schemes. He holds a BA in Political Science and Government from Waseda University and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management.