On 27 June 2024, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PPC), Japan’s data protection authority, released the “Interim Report on Considerations for the Triennial Review of the Act on Protection of Personal Information” (“Interim Report”). The Interim Report summarizes discussions within the PPC on issues surrounding the Act on Protection of Personal Information (APPI) from November 2023 to June 2024. The Interim Report is in accordance with amendments made to the APPI in 2020 requiring the PPC to review the provisions of the APPI every three years.

In this recording of our introductory workshop, Baker McKenzie FinTech Legal Accelerator: Cracking the Legal Code, held as part of the Hong Kong FinTech Week 2020, our lawyers across Asia Pacific give an overview of key fintech issues that start-ups or scale-ups need to know as they grow and expand…