JAPAN

India to Tighten Credit Cooperative Rules

By Samuel Riding | 04/01/2016

Cooperatives that fail to repay investors or violate other regulations will be penalised.

How Regulation is Accelerating Use of E-trading

By Editors | 16/12/2015

Moves to reduce systemic risk and increase transparency in OTC derivatives support technological innovation.

Japan Investigating Real Estate Lending

By Samuel Riding | 11/12/2015

FSA concerned about impact of property market downturn on banks’ high proportion of real estate lending.

BOJ Warns on Over-regulation, Says No Need for Negative Rates

By Samuel Riding | 08/12/2015

Japan’s central bank governor calls for close monitoring of impact of overseas regulation including Volcker rule.

Four Japanese Banks face Tighter Capital Requirements

By Samuel Riding | 26/11/2015

FSA to require the four banks to lift capital ratios by half a percentage point to ward off crisis.

Crypto / Digital Assets

Japan to Revamp Oversight of Virtual Currencies

By Samuel Riding | 18/11/2015

FSA invites operators of virtual currency exchanges to share knowledge and come up with ideas for regulation.

Market Infrastructure

Four Japanese Banks Sign up to ISDA Protocol

By Samuel Riding | 13/11/2015

Quartet among 21 global financial institutions to sign up to revised protocol on special resolution regimes.

Japan Seeks to Impose Capital Rules on Insurers

By Editors | 18/10/2015

FSA wants domestic insurance companies to adopt an emerging set of international capital standards sometime around 2020.

Japan Launches New Payment and Settlement System

By Editors | 15/10/2015

The Bank of Japan has launched its renewed payment and settlement system BOJ-NET, its latest efforts to internationalise the Japanese yen,