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Japan Minister of State for Financial Services Comments on Olympus Corporation
It is highly regrettable from the viewpoint of market fairness and transparency, that the Olympus Corporation has been engaged in deferring the posting of losses from securities and other investments. It is troubling to see investors, both domestic and abroad, question the fairness and transparency of the Japanese markets, and I would urge all the [...]
Tax Treatment of Foreign Investors Who Use Servers Located in Japan
Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (hereinafter “TSE”) submitted an inquiry to the National Tax Agency (hereinafter “NTA”) entitled “Tax Treatment Related to Use of the TSE Co-Location Service by Foreign Investors,” and announced on June 11, 20101 that NTA responded as follows: “if a foreign investor (limited to a non-resident individual or a foreign corporation having [...]
Technology Compatibility Pushing Japan Exchanges to Merge?
Consolidation of Japan’s exchanges is nothing new with TOCOM, most recently, absorbing most of Tokyo Grain Exchanges products and trading operations and C-Com closing its doors. There are now 4 major exchanges in Japan – the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX), Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) and the recently improved Osaka Securities Exchange [...]
Chairman’s Opening Address at Trading Architecture Japan
Distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good morning. It is my pleasure to join you today here at the Trading Architecture Japan conference. These are exciting times for electronic trading in Japan as well as across Asia. The region has been in the throes of change really since the global financial crisis but perhaps the defining [...]
Electronic Trading Growth in Japan is Inevitable
Despite being almost the largest economy in Asia, Japan has lagged the rest of Asia’s developed markets in terms of electronic trading. However, that is all about to change as the Land of the Rising Sun is poised for an acceleration of electronic trading in a year filled with a much needed overhaul of their [...]
