The government interest in security technology has opened financing options and new markets for start-ups, but dealing with the government can still be a long, arduous process.
The Bank's Open Finances programme leverages an open data website and a suite of mobile applications.
A state-backed lender, the Japan Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC), has opened the financing spigot.
A recently opened exhibition financed by the Crown Property Bureau, an organization that handles the king's vast business interests, describes King Bhumibol as "bringing about peace, happiness and good quality of life".
The decision marks perhaps the most dramatic response to the relentless advertising wars in the first presidential campaign since the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision opened the financing floodgates.
So here's an offer: I will start opening my finances up to you, but how about you doing the same for me, O.K.? You're an adult, but I worry about you plenty, as I always have.
His efforts to open the finances of the Royal households to public scrutiny prompted the Guardian's investigative digger David Hencke to describe him as a "brilliant behind the scenes man".
They have had to accept painful spending cuts, tax rises and labour market reforms dictated by their eurozone peers, and to open their finances up to inspection by the European Commission, IMF, and ECB every three months.
Rather than open his finances to scrutiny, he has hidden his tax returns and refused to separate himself from his business interests.
Los Angeles' new city controller moved Wednesday to open city finances to far deeper public scrutiny, unveiling a website that provides new details on how billions of dollars are collected and spent.
