Differentiation through services that are difficult for other companies to imitate
First written in FY2016. 19 of 24 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2017-Q1. Latest entry: 2026-06-18.
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- 2026-06-18AdvancedBusiness Alliances
「フェリカネットワークス株式会社が開発した GP-SE向けソフトウェア（セキュアアプレット）を採用しており、FPoS の認証に用いる秘密鍵は Android の GP-SE という安全な場所で管理されます。これにより、本ライブラリの高いセキュリティと信頼性を担保しています。」
GP-SE向けソフトウェアとAndroidのGP-SEによる秘密鍵管理を採用し、FPoSの対面認証におけるセキュリティ・信頼性の実装を具体化した。 - FY2026AdvancedAnnual report
「July 2025: FPoS has been integrated into the smartphone payment app provided by WELLNET CORPORATION, offering secure payments using electronic certificates. Rather than relying on conventional ID-and-password authentication, the service verifies the user’s identity with a My Number Card when the account is created, then authenticates the individual using a private key and electronic certificate managed by the smartphone’s hardware security module (HSM). This provides a fundamental solution to impersonation, unauthorized logins caused by man-in-the-middle attacks and data tampering.」
FPoS’s differentiating technology has been integrated into WELLNET CORPORATION’s smartphone payment app and implemented as a commercial service using an HSM-managed private key and electronic certificate. - FY2025-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「In May 2024, the company also released the “FPoS Library,” which packages FPoS’s core functions as reusable components.」
For FPoS, the core of its technological differentiation, the company released a library packaging its core functions, making it possible to integrate identity verification, authentication of the individual and data-sharing functions into external applications. - FY2024-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「The greatest strength of “mebuku ID” is its high level of security. In addition, this security enables the personal information held by multiple businesses to be shared securely and reliably, which can be described as its greatest differentiating factor.」
The company highlights, as differentiating factors, the robust security of mebuku ID, which implements FPoS, and the secure sharing of personal information among multiple businesses. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「This function displays a list on the smartphone of the parties to which the customer’s personal information will be provided, allowing the customer to authorize or withdraw consent for the provision of personal information. It enables customers to manage their own personal information.」
The company has reaffirmed that FPoS’s differentiating “Dynamic Opt-In” feature allows users to authorize or withdraw consent for the provision of their personal information. - FY2024-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「Under “Dynamic Opt-In,” users can manage their own personal information, and their personal information cannot be shared with others without their consent.」
FPoS’s technological differentiation has been made concrete through its “Dynamic Opt-In” function, which allows users to authorize, refuse or withdraw consent for the provision and sharing of their personal information. - FY2022-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「There were 9 services accredited under the Electronic Signatures Act before the Company’s subsidiary obtained accreditation, but my FinTech’s “my Electronic Certificate” became the first electronic certificate installed on a smartphone to receive such accreditation.」
For FPoS, a core pillar of its technological differentiation, the company obtained the first certification under the Electronic Signatures Act for an electronic certificate installed on a smartphone, demonstrating concrete differentiation including at the institutional level. - FY2021-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「Secure ID Co., Ltd. will combine the patent technologies and know-how of both companies to develop and expand sub-SIM solutions for the Japanese and overseas markets.」
A joint venture with Taisys, which holds patented sub-SIM technology and related expertise, has been established, creating a framework for developing and expanding sales of solutions that bring together the two companies’ technologies. - FY2020-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「Taisys Technologies Co. Ltd. (hereinafter, “Taisys”), the developer and manufacturer holding the patent for the sub-SIM used by FPoS, agreed on 1 November 2019 to establish セキュアID株式会社 as a joint venture with Taisys.」
The company has made its technological and hardware collaboration for FPoS concrete by establishing a joint venture with the developer and manufacturer holding the sub-SIM patent. - FY2019AdvancedAnnual report
「Obtained 3 patents related to FPoS's core technology in March 2019」
As a concrete result of its technological differentiation, the company obtained 3 patents relating to FPoS core technology. - FY2019-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「On 24 January this year, the Financial Services Agency announced, based on the results of this demonstration experiment, that FPoS had 'no particular issues from the perspective of identity verification when conducting non-face-to-face transactions using the internet or other communications methods.' This removed the institutional barriers to adoption of FPoS by banks and other institutions.」
For FPoS using proprietary SIMs, the Financial Services Agency published an assessment based on the demonstration experiment results that found no identity verification issues for non-face-to-face transactions, and the company explained that institutional barriers to adoption had been removed. - FY2019-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「On 31 May of this year, FPoS was selected for support under the Financial Services Agency’s “FinTech Proof-of-Concept Hub.” Through the end of October, proof-of-concept testing will be conducted by Gunma Bank, Chiba Bank, Tokushima Bank, Money Forward and Cybertrust, with a final report scheduled to be submitted to the Financial Services Agency in mid-December. The Company is also advancing initiatives toward commercializing FPoS.」
The differentiated FPoS service using proprietary SIMs has progressed, following the Financial Services Agency's support decision, to the stage of demonstration experiments involving multiple financial institutions and companies and preparations for commercialization. - FY2019-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「Although FPoS has not yet reached the launch of commercial services, it was selected for support by the Financial Services Agency as a FinTech Demonstration Experiment Hub project on 31 May 2018, ahead of the launch of 'Strange SIM', and demonstration experiments are currently under way.」
For differentiated services using proprietary SIMs, FPoS became eligible for support from the Financial Services Agency and advanced to the demonstration experiment stage. - FY2018-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Unlike the low-cost SIM market, these new initiatives, which make maximum use of deregulation, are based on clear technological differentiation and are expected to address an extremely large market.」
The company is reaffirming its policy of positioning SIM security platforms and license-free LTE as the pillars of technological differentiation from low-cost SIMs. - FY2018-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「As one of the major pillars of our services differentiated from those of other companies, we are developing and providing a platform using SIM authentication.」
The company is advancing a SIM authentication platform using proprietary SIMs as a specific development and delivery initiative for differentiation from other companies. - FY2017RestatedAnnual report
「Our group develops and provides services that are technically difficult for other companies to imitate, using facilities leased from mobile network operators.」
The company is reaffirming its policy of differentiating itself through proprietary technologies, including authentication, billing and control methods, while using mobile network operators' facilities. - FY2017-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「We aim to realize a Japan Communications SIM by procuring SIMs made to our specifications directly from SIM manufacturers, writing the authentication information and other data required to connect to multiple mobile networks in Japan and overseas, and then providing them.」
The company presents the direct procurement of SIMs made to its specifications and the writing of authentication information and other data supporting multiple mobile networks as specific means of differentiation. - FY2017-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「If this initiative is realized, we will be able to provide our dedicated wireless line service, which only we can offer, anywhere in the world.」
The company is reiterating its view that its dedicated wireless line is a proprietary service that can be provided globally as a differentiator. - FY2017-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「One example is the adoption of our dedicated wireless lines by 日立ハイテクソリューションズ株式会社 and prefectural police forces. Please refer to the disclosure materials announced on 11 May 2016 and 29 July 2016.」
The company cites adoption by businesses and prefectural police forces as specific examples of the use of its patented dedicated wireless line technology. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「Our group develops and provides services that are technically difficult for other companies to imitate, using facilities leased from mobile network operators.」
The company plans to differentiate itself through proprietary technologies, including authentication, billing and control methods, while using mobile network operators' facilities. R&D expenses were ¥81.631 million.