Financial Services Agency

Market Infrastructure

Japan’s FSA to Review HFT

By Samuel Riding | 12/04/2016

Regulator to review impact on market volatility and potential damage to value of listed companies.

Japan’s FSA Urges Banks to Draw up Negative Rate Action Plans

By Samuel Riding | 18/02/2016

Regulator says regional banks should plan for impact of negative rates on securities investment.

Market Infrastructure

BOJ to Closely Monitor Impact of Negative Rates

By Samuel Riding | 03/02/2016

Finance minister responds to concern about impact on domestic banks’ profitability.

Market Infrastructure

Japan, EU Making ‘Substantial Progress’ on Regulatory Cooperation

By Samuel Riding | 22/01/2016

Annual meeting cites concerns about impact of reforms on economic growth, updates on regulatory cooperation framework.

Japan Considering New Rate Risk System

By Samuel Riding | 07/01/2016

Early warning system on interest rate changes to be based on outcome of BCBS proposals.

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.

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.

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.