Press Releases (2019)

• August
• July
• June
• May
• April
• March
• February
• January

August

• ICGN Annual Conference 2019 - Keynote Speech by Commissioner Toshihide Endo (Augst 2, 2019)

July

• Updated statistics of money lending business (July 30, 2019)
• Status of digitalization efforts in financial monitoring (July 10, 2019)

June

• Stewardship Code : 251 institutional investors have signed up to the Principles for Responsible Institutional Investors as of June 28, 2019 (June 28, 2019)
• Updated statistics of money lending business (June 27, 2019)
• Comment Letter on the U.S. agencies’ proposed changes to regulatory requirements for foreign banking organizations (June 24, 2019)
• Overview of financial results of major insurance companies as of March 31, 2019 (June 21, 2019)
• The seventh meeting of the Payments Council on Financial Innovation (June 18, 2019)
• Field Tests of Economic Value-Based Evaluation and Supervisory Method - 2018 Results and 2019 Direction - (June 14, 2019)
• Insurance Forum Japan 2019 - Remarks by Taro Aso, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Minister of State for Financial Services (June 13, 2019)
• Others IIF Spring Membership Meeting - Keynote Speech by FSA Commissioner Toshihide Endo (June 13, 2019)
• IIF Spring Membership Meeting - Remarks by Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso (June 13, 2019)
• G20/OECD Seminar on Corporate Governance - Closing Remarks by Commissioner Toshihide Endo (June 8, 2019)
• 20/OECD Seminar on Corporate Governance - Opening Remarks by Taro Aso, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, and Minister of State for Financial Services (June 8, 2019)
• Session 2 of the G20 High-level Seminar on Financial Innovation ”Our Future in the Digital Age” - Introductory remarks by Commissioner Toshihide Endo (June 8, 2019)
• G20 High-level Seminar on Financial Innovation ”Our Future in the Digital Age” - Opening Remarks by Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso (June 8, 2019)
• Exchange of Letters for Cooperation in the area of financial institutions supervision with Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany(BaFin) (June 7, 2019)
• Administrative Actions against Citigroup Global Markets Japan Inc. (June 7, 2019)
• G20 High-level Symposium on Aging and Financial Inclusion (GPFI Forum) - Remarks by Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso (June 7, 2019)
• Overview of major banks’ financial results as of March 31, 2019 (June 6, 2019)
• Overview of the Japanese regional  banks’ financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019 (June 6, 2019)
• Publication of “Principles Regarding the Disclosure of Narrative Information” (June 6, 2019)
• G20 Fukuoka Policy Priorities on Aging and Financial Inclusion (June 6, 2019)

May

• International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators Report on 2018 Survey of Inspection Findings (May 31, 2019)
• Updated statistics of money lending business (May 30, 2019)
• Administrative Action against Nomura Holdings, Inc. and Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (May 28, 2019)
• Launching the TCFD Consortium of Japan (May 21, 2019)
• Greece Meeting of the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators (''IFIAR'') (May 14, 2019)
• Stewardship Code : 248 institutional investors have signed up to the Principles for Responsible Institutional Investors as of May 8, 2019 (May 10, 2019)
• JFSA's Blockchain Round-Table 2019 [Multilateral Joint Research project] (May 7, 2019)

April

• Updated statistics of money lending business (April 25, 2019)
• Publication of the "Recommended Directions for Further Promotion of Corporate Governance Reform" (April 24, 2019)
• Overview of Financial System Issues for the 2019 G20 Japan Presidency - speech by Shunsuke Shirakawa (April 23, 2019)
• The NGFS publishes its first comprehensive report (April 19, 2019)
• Stewardship Code : 246 institutional investors have signed up to the Principles for Responsible Institutional Investors as of April 12, 2019 (April 18, 2019)
• Interview on ISDA Quarterly (April 2019) (April 10, 2019)
• FSA hosted Interim Nominating Committee (April 8, 2019)
• Partial revision of the "Reference Cases" regarding the "Independent Agent Exemption" of fund managers (April 1, 2019)

March

• Updated statistics of money lending business (March 28, 2019)
• Publication of Report from Study Group on Virtual Currency Exchange Services (March 22, 2019)
• Appointment of Chief Sustainable Finance Officer (March 15, 2019)
• Commissioner Toshihide Endo Paid a Courtesy Call on H.E. U Soe Win, Union Minister for Planning and Finance of Republic of the Union of Myanmar (March 11, 2019)
• Publication of the list of links to English translations of Annual Securities Reports(ASRs) (March 8, 2019)

February

• Updated statistics of money lending business (February 28, 2019)
• Joint session of the 41st general meeting of Financial System Council and the 29th meeting of Sectional Committee on Financial System (February 26, 2019)
• Publication of the “Report on the development of regulations for financial institutions regarding data utilization” by the “Study Group on the Financial System” under the Financial System Council (February 14, 2019)
• FSA publishes the status of loans held by all banks as of the end of September 2018, based on the Financial Reconstruction Act (February 13, 2019)

January

• International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators 2018 Report on Survey of Audit Regulators’ Enforcement Regimes (January 31, 2019)
• Updated statistics of money lending business (January 30, 2019)
• FSA and US NAIC held the 10th meeting of the Insurance Regulatory Dialogue (January 30, 2019)
• Risks and opportunities in an aging society - speech by Ryozo Himino (January 25, 2019)
• Publication of the Summary from “FinTech Summit 2018” (January 25, 2019)
• The sixth meeting of the Payments Council on Financial Innovation (January 23, 2019)
• Update of the Policy Approaches to Strengthen Cyber Security in the Financial Sector (January 15, 2019)
• Financial Industry-wide Cybersecurity Exercise (Delta Wall III) (January 15, 2019)