Financial Services Agency

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.

Japan FSA Urges Banks to Enhance Crisis Readiness

By Editors | 21/09/2015

New guidelines call on banks to assess the impact of potential financial crises and to build up capital for such events.

Japan Officials Seek Clarity on Bank Capital Framework

By Editors | 04/09/2015

Officials are calling for outstanding elements of the bank capital framework to be finalised as soon as possible so the industry can plan for the future.