What’s New on the FSA Website

Week of December 8, 2025 - December 12, 2025

This page contains the latest in events, developments, and updates to the FSA website.

For files in HTML formats, when you click original press release links, and click the "Language" button on the upper right of the Japanese website, and select "Machine translation" displayed on the screen, the results of the translation by AI are displayed. Please note that machine translated pages are not necessarily correct.

Press Conferences

December 10, 2025	Press Conference by the Minister of State for Financial Services (December 2, 2025)
December 8, 2025	Press Conference by the Minister of State for Financial Services (November 28, 2025)

Public Comments

December 12, 2025

The FSA published information on public consultation on the draft Order Partially Amending the Order on Participant Protection Trusts. The draft order aims to rearrange the provisions of the Order on Participant Protection Trusts, accompanying the enforcement of the Act on Charitable Trusts (Act No. 30 of 2024) on April 1, 2026. The original press release is available in Japanese.

December 8, 2025

Publication of a draft partial amendment to the "Comprehensive Guidelines for Supervision of Major Banks, etc." and others: The FSA compiled and publicized a draft partial amendment to the "Comprehensive Guidelines for Supervision of Major Banks, etc." and others in order to strengthen countermeasures against cyber risks that have been heightening in recent years. The original press release is available in Japanese.

Press Releases

Policies

December 12, 2025	Publication of the "Policy Evaluation Implementation Plan for FY 2025": The FSA will conduct policy evaluation pursuant to the plan, and the results will be published in due course. To ensure objectivity and improve the quality of evaluation, the plan has been reviewed by outside experts, and their inputs are reflected in the plan. The original press release is available in Japanese.

International

December 8, 2025	The Ninth Japan-Korea Financial Shuttle Meeting

Councils

December 12, 2025	Publication of information on the third meeting of the Working Group on Capital Market Regulations of the Financial System Council to be held on December 19, 2025 The original press release is available in Japanese.
December 11, 2025	Publication of the minutes of the third meeting of the Working Group on Regional Financial Power Enhancement (provisional translation) of the Financial System Council held on October 28, 2025 The original press release is available in Japanese.
December 11, 2025	The fourth meeting of the Working Group on Corporate Disclosure of the Financial System Council
December 10, 2025	The Working Group on the Cryptoasset System (provisional translation) of the Financial System Council compiled and publicized a report. The compilation and publication of the report will be explained at the general meeting of the Financial System Council and the meeting of the Sectional Committee on Financial System. The original press release is available in Japanese.
December 9, 2025	The FSA published information on the Working Group for the Enhancement of Corporate Risk Management (provisional translation). In recent years, companies doing business domestically and globally face heightening risks of being forced to suspend business and suffering increasing damage due to natural disasters that are becoming severer and occur frequently and geopolitical risks coming up to the surface. Accordingly, strengthening efforts for risk management is becoming more and more important for companies. Under such circumstances, the first meeting of the Working Group for the Enhancement of Corporate Risk Management will be held with the aim of having related parties make efforts to formulate a common understanding so that companies can promote investment for growth, while properly managing risks, including the use of non-life insurance. The original press release is available in Japanese.
December 9, 2025	Publication of information on the first meeting of the Working Group for the Enhancement of Corporate Risk Management (provisional translation) to be held on December 10, 2025 The original press release is available in Japanese.
December 9, 2025	Publication of information on the fourth meeting of the FSA's AI Public-Private Forum to be held on December 23, 2025 The original press release is available in Japanese.

Banks

December 12, 2025

Publication of a report on measures for the resolution of failed financial institutions: The FSA submitted to the National Diet a report (FRC [Financial Reconstruction Commission] report) on measures for the resolution of failed financial institutions pursuant to the Act on Emergency Measures for the Revitalization of Financial Functions. The report covers developments between April 1, 2025, and September 30, 2025. The original press release is available in Japanese.

December 9, 2025

Issuance of a request for financial measures to deal with disasters caused by the earthquake that occurred off the eastern coast of Aomori Prefecture in 2025 The original press release is available in Japanese.

Others

December 12, 2025	Updated Japan Fintech Week 2026 official website
December 10, 2025	Information on North Korean Human Rights Abuse Awareness Week was publicized. Under the Act on Handling of Abduction Issues and Other Human Right Issues Related to North Korean Authorities, December 10 to 16 every year is designated as North Korean Human Rights Abuse Awareness Week. For details, see the website of the Secretariat of the Headquarters for Abduction Issues, Cabinet Secretariat（https://www.rachi.go.jp/index.html） The original press release is available in Japanese.
December 8, 2025	Updated the webpage titled "Rapidly Increasing Damage in Internet Transaction Services due to Unauthorized Access and Unauthorized Transactions" The original press release is available in Japanese.