Infomart and GMO-PG will be deployed as customers of Fukuho Bank
Providing "Electronic Invoice Early Payment "
~Promote financial institution collaboration in the field of BtoB finance and support the DX of business partners~

GMO Internet Group, which develops comprehensive payment-related services and finance-related services, GMO Payment Gateway, Inc. (TSE partial: Securities Code: 3769, President & Chief Executive Officer: Issei Ainoura hereinafter referred to as "GMO-PG") is a business partner of Fukuho Bank, Ltd. (Representative Director & President: Takeo Watanabe, hereinafter referred to as "Fukuho Bank"). , Infomart Co., Ltd. (President & Chief Executive Officer: Akira Nagao, hereinafter referred to as "Infomart") will offer "Electronic Invoice Early Payment" from today, April 1, 2021 (Thursday).
" Electronic Invoice Early Payment" is a service that provides Infomart's "BtoB platform" to businesses that use invoice (accounts receivable) to quickly monetize their receivables accounts receivable Electronic Invoice Early Payment.^​ It will be possible to fund earlier than the deposit due date.
GMO-PG will continue to work on financial institution collaboration in the field of BtoB finance and support the expansion of DX support services for financial institution 's business partners.

• To use this service, you need to obtain an ID for the BtoB platform. After starting to use this service, it is necessary to submit the specified documents to GMO-PG as an application for the use of "Electronic Invoice Early Payment". After that, you can request a purchase when necessary. In addition, applications for use and purchase requests are subject to GMO-PG review.

GMO-PG provides finance-related services to support business-to-business payment such as "GMO B2B Early Payment," "GMO B2B AR Guarantee," and "GMO BtoB Payment Guarantee" with the aim of providing multifaceted support for BtoB business operators' operational efficiency and growth measures. In addition, in order to support more BtoB businesses, we are collaborating with financial institution and actively supporting the financing services that financial institution develops for business partners. Such GMO-PG initiatives can realize schemes that contribute to both financial institution companies that want to expand their service lineup for business partners and companies that have problems with BtoB transactions. For this reason, we have recently received an increasing number of inquiries from financial institution, which are considering providing new FinTech services and DX support services to our business partners.
Against this backdrop, GMO-PG has been providing "Electronic Invoice Early Payment" since January 2020 together with Infomart to help BtoB businesses improve their cash flow, which allows them to quickly capitalize invoice issued by BtoB businesses.
GMO-PG has decided to provide Fukuho Bank's business partners with the "Electronic Invoice Early Payment" that it develops with Infomart as it expands its financing services to support the DX of existing and new business partners. As a result, BtoB businesses that do business with Fukubon Bank will be able to capitalize their accounts receivable earlier than the deposit due date, and will be able to improve their cash flow.

"Electronic Invoice Early Payment" is a service provided by Infomart and GMO-PG, both listed companies, for businesses using the "BtoB platform" provided by Infomart accounts receivable invoice. By making a purchase request on the "Electronic Invoice Early Payment" screen, BtoB businesses can capitalize their invoice (accounts receivable) earlier than the payment due date, making it possible to raise funds for business operations.
The Electronic Invoice Early Payment is based on the GMO B2B Early Payment of GMO-PG to purchase accounts receivable held by BtoB businesses to make early monetization, and GMO-PG collects payments, reducing the risk of non-collection.