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Zaim (ザイム)

Confidence: Likely Updated 2026-05-26 Review by 2026-11-20 Sources 3 Machine-translated Original (JA)
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This entry sits under the payment-firms INDEX as a PFM (Personal Financial Management) app sitting next to the much larger Money Forward ME peer. Read it with the Japan BNPL landscape for adjacent consumer-finance context, the freee / SmartBank sibling household-finance set, and the au Financial Holdings (au-FH) corporate context for the KDDI-affiliated branch story. The BNPL and credit-purchase boundary and credit-purchase registry page sit one layer down the regulatory stack, while the Japan payment scheme economics matrix explains why PFM apps depend on account-API economics.

TL;DR

Zaim is one of Japan’s most senior-class household-budgeting apps, released in 2011 年. As a fintech remnant that, alongside Money Forward ME, has formed the consumer-facing PFM category, it was made a KDDI subsidiary in 2022-04 and repositioned as a data-origin asset of the au economic sphere (au Financial Holdings (au-FH)). Its distinguishing feature set is receipt OCR + bank/card API linkage + municipal-benefit search.

1. Legal entity / license boundary

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Legal entity株式会社 Zaim
GroupKDDI 100% subsidiary (wholly-owned subsidiary as of 2022-04 ), within the [[megabanks/au-fh
ProductZaim household-budgeting app (iOS / Android / Web)

2. Business role

  • A PFM app that visualizes household finances through receipt photography + OCR + automatic category classification + automatic linkage of bank/card statements.
  • Its differentiation axis from Money Forward ME is that it has a living-information layer extending beyond household finances, such as municipal-benefit / public-support service search.

3. Why this standalone page matters

The PFM category tends to be seen as dominated by Money Forward ME alone, but Zaim followed the rare exit route of independent founding → becoming a wholly-owned KDDI subsidiary, and warrants a standalone page as a typical example of a fintech remnant within a telecom-carrier economic sphere.

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