Digital Wallet Group

Digital Wallet Group is a global artificial intelligence (AI) and fintech company founded by CEO Eiji Miyakawa and a team of former cloud designers and engineers of Sony Corporation. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the company offers high-tech B2C and B2B services: international mobile remittance, mobile app development, and cloud/mobile CRM. Its mission is to utilize its IT and fintech to help maintain peace and sustainability within the international society. It is the first company to develop Japan’s first eKYC mainly for its B2C international money transfer service, Smiles Mobile Remittance. Within a few years after Digital Wallet launched Smiles in 2017, it was voted as the number one mobile money transfer service in Japan. Smiles made history becoming the first mobile application to receive Good Design Award 2021. In 2024, after acquiring the Seven Bank's international remittance service, Smiles became Japan's largest ATM network, giving its customers access to over 77 thousand locations nationwide. In addition to a branch office in Nagano, Japan, the company expanded its satellite offices to eight locations: Singapore, Canada, the United States, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Nepal, and the EU. Digital Wallet's team has 13 nationalities, comprising over 60 percent female members.