Press Releases (2020)

• April
• March
• February
• January

April

• Preparation for permanent cessation of LIBOR (April 3, 2020)
• BG2C put off further to be rescheduled after Covid-19 subsides (April 3, 2020)
• Appointment of the Director of the Financial Research Center (April 1, 2020)

March

• Updated statistics of money lending business (March 30, 2020)
• FSA updated Information on COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) (March 27, 2020)
• Finalization of Japan’s Stewardship Code (Second revised version) (March 24, 2020)
• At BG2C [Blockchain Global Governance Conference] Special Online Panel Discussion - Keynote Speech by Commissioner ENDO Toshihide (March 24, 2020)
• Stewardship Code : 280 institutional investors have signed up to the Principles for Responsible Institutional Investors as of March 13, 2020 (March 16, 2020)
• Information on COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) (March 13, 2020)
• Joint Survey on the Use of LIBOR (March 13, 2020)
• Preparation for permanent cessation of LIBOR (March 13, 2020)
• Launch of a new global network for blockchain "Blockchain Governance Initiative Network" [BGIN] (March 10, 2020)
• Exchange of Letters on Cooperation in the area of supervision with the Banco Central do Brasil (March 3, 2020)
• Notice of postponing BG2C and FIN/SUM BB (March 2, 2020)
• The European Financial Forum 2020 - Speech by MIYASHITA Ichiro, State Minister for Financial Services (March 2, 2020)

February

• Updated statistics of money lending business (February 27, 2020)
• FSA publishes English version of Reference Cases on Suspicious Transactions (February 21, 2020)
• FSA publishes the status of loans held by all banks as of the end of September 2019, based on the Financial Reconstruction Act (February 21, 2020)
• FSA hosted the IOSCO Committee on Issuer Accounting, Audit and Disclosure (Committee 1) meeting (February 21, 2020)
• International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators published the Report on 2019 Survey of Inspection Findings (February 21, 2020)
• Stewardship Code : 277 institutional investors have signed up to the Principles for Responsible Institutional Investors as of February 14, 2020 (February 18, 2020)
• Publication of Final Report by the Expert Study Group on Capital Markets in Japan of the Financial System Council (February 17, 2020)
• Joint Session of the 43rd General Meeting of Financial System Council and the 31st Meeting of Sectional Committee on Financial System (February 10, 2020)
• IFIAR announced the results of a four-year initiative to reduce the inspection findings rate (February 5, 2020)
• Game companies are required to notify the Japanese authority (Local Finance Bureau) in accordance with the Payment Services Act.(Available in Japanese, English and Chinese) (February 5, 2020)

January

• Updated statistics of money lending business (January 30, 2020)
• Release of videos of "G20 High-level Seminar on Financial Innovation" and "G20/OECD Seminar on Corporate Governance" (January 28, 2020)
• FSA publishes GLOPAC Newsletter vol.14 (January 23, 2020)
• The FSA published new materials and minutes of The Council of Experts on the Stewardship Code (January 20, 2020)
• Guidebook for Registration of Investment Management Business and Other Financial Instruments Businesses (January 10, 2020)