Press Conference by Taro Aso, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, and Minister of State for Financial Services
(Excerpt)
(Tuesday, February 6, 2018, 8:45 am to 8:48 am)
[Questions and answers:]
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The Financial Services Agency has taken the unusual step of being stationed inspectors full-time. Could you please tell us the aim of this?
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Being stationed full-time inspectors is not unusual.
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But ten of them…
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The number of inspectors may be different, but this is not unusual. Our on-site inspection is aimed at ensuring customer protection, of course, as well as at ascertaining and verifying in real time the progress made in implementing the order for business improvement issued to Coincheck on January 29, and in addition to the on-site inspection, we carry out a variety of other monitoring to examine and understand the circumstances there. The fact is that something like this has not often happened before, the amount involved is enormous, and Coincheck is different from a bank, so in that sense we are very interested in keeping an eye on events in real time.
