Oriental Consultants Global Co., Ltd. (OC Global) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a business partnership with Bankers Holding Co., Ltd. regarding the development and financing of social impact businesses both in Japan and overseas. Through this partnership, OC Global extends its role beyond offering engineering services as a construction consultancy to directly creating and investing in ventures that achieve both social problem-solving and profitability. By combining OC Global’s technical expertise, project formation strengths, and local networks—developed through ODA and international infrastructure development—with Bankers Group’s financial functions such as crowdfunding, the two companies aim to accelerate overseas private investment projects.

First Step of the Partnership: Land-Based Shrimp Aquaculture Project in Indonesia
The collaboration between the two companies has already commenced with a land-based shrimp aquaculture project in Indonesia, in which OC Global holds an equity stake. Bankers Group established a dedicated fund for this project and successfully raised operating capital through crowdfunding. In this initiative, OC Global applies its infrastructure technologies—including water treatment, site preparation, and construction supervision—to help address food security challenges. This serves as the initial milestone for a model that moves from “providing technology” to “utilizing technology to independently create, invest in, and realize projects through financial integration.”

Creating Private Investment Projects Leveraging Insights from ODA
OC Global will build a business model that uses the technologies, human resources, local networks, and business foundations cultivated through ODA as “seeds” to cultivate private investment ventures. Focus sectors include fields where social problem-solving and commercial viability align, such as infrastructure, environmental solutions, water treatment, DX, and agri-tech (including land-based aquaculture and smart agriculture). These target areas fully align with the collaborative framework set forth in the MOU.

Inancing through Crowdfunding and Other Means
In overseas private investment ventures, initial-stage financing often becomes a bottleneck for commercialization. Through this partnership, leveraging crowdfunding and other means will streamline and accelerate the timeline from project formation and capital raising to project execution.

Supporting Overseas Private Investment Expansion for Japanese Enterprises
OC Global’s objective through this partnership extends beyond expanding its own investment portfolio. While many Japanese companies possess superior technologies and products, there are cases where they are unable to proceed to full-scale business investment overseas due to a lack of know-how in project formation, local partner structuring, risk sharing, and capital sourcing.
By directly investing in social impact projects, OC Global plans to provide the expertise it accumulates in project formation, investment, and financing—connecting ODA and public sector projects to private investment ventures—for the overseas business expansion of Japanese companies.

Establishing a New Business Model Beyond Traditional Construction Consultancy
Moving forward, OC Global aims to establish a business model that consistently manages the entire process: utilizing its technical capabilities cultivated as a construction consultancy and its global business foundation to identify social issues, design technology-based solutions, directly invest, attract private capital, and establish sustainable operations. OC Global views this partnership with Bankers Holding as a crucial step in accelerating this development.

Note: This MOU confirms the fundamental mutual intent between both companies and is a non-binding framework agreement. Specific execution terms and conditions for individual projects will be discussed and agreed upon separately on a project-by-project basis.

Bankers Holding Co., Ltd.
Headquarters: 1-8-1 Nihonbashi Kayabacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Representative: Tsuyoshi Shibuya, Representative Director
Established: August 2019
Business Operations: Management and related operations of group companies operating loan-based crowdfunding platforms such as “Bankers”
URL:https://holding.bankers.co.jp/

Registered Financial Instruments Firm operating Bankers: Bankers Co., Ltd. (Kanto Local Finance Bureau (FIBO) No. 3216)

*Please review the information provided regarding the matters required to be stated in the documents delivered prior to the conclusion of the agreement for the relevant fund, including detailed information on the terms and conditions, risks, and nature of the fund, and make your investment decision at your own discretion and responsibility. Please note that the funds for which Bankers Co., Ltd. acts as an offering and distribution agent do not guarantee the redemption of investors’ contributions or the expected rate of return.

 

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