Announced details
Ongoing customer management at financial institutions; anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing; prevention of fraudulent account openings; identity verification
not disclosed (the study will assess the potential to improve completion rates, reduce costs, and lower workloads)
Already used by multiple financial institutions (number of financial institutions: not disclosed)
Caulis provides the service, which Kuwana Mie Shinkin Bank will use in the proof-of-concept study. Capital and personnel relationships: not disclosed.
Head office: Kuwana, Mie Prefecture; Chairman: Masukawa Yukio (益川 幸夫). Shinkin bank. Other attributes: not disclosed.
Approximately 80 million households (scale covered by electricity contract information)
In this announcement the company addresses none of Contract Value / Offering price / Impact on Business Performance.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s “Gray Zone Elimination System”
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Names of Products / Services Covered | Grid Data KYC |
| Counterparty | Kuwana Mie Shinkin Bank |
| Counterparty overview | Head office: Kuwana, Mie Prefecture; Chairman: Masukawa Yukio (益川 幸夫). Shinkin bank. Other attributes: not disclosed. |
| Relationship with the Company | Caulis provides the service, which Kuwana Mie Shinkin Bank will use in the proof-of-concept study. Capital and personnel relationships: not disclosed. |
| Launch date | 22 October 2026 (reported date on which the proof-of-concept study began) |
| Applicable area | Ongoing customer management at financial institutions; anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing; prevention of fraudulent account openings; identity verification |
| Location scale | Approximately 80 million households (scale covered by electricity contract information) |
| Quantitative Effects | not disclosed (the study will assess the potential to improve completion rates, reduce costs, and lower workloads) |
| Usage history | Already used by multiple financial institutions (number of financial institutions: not disclosed) |
| Source | The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s “Gray Zone Elimination System” |
Items this document does not state (8)
These are items the company does not state in this document. We do not leave them blank, nor fill them in from other sources or by inference.
The reasons the company gives
The company's own explanation, not something inferred from the numbers.To assess the effectiveness of an identity verification method using electricity contract information in response to declining response rates, mailing costs, administrative burdens, and the risk of exposing customer information through misdirected mail under ongoing customer management conducted by post.