Japan promotes initiatives to strengthen competitiveness of its financial markets to overseas investors

23 January 2008

Top representatives from the entire Japanese securities industry were gathered at an event in London this week to promote the Japanese market as a whole to overseas investors. Japan is in the process of introducing a series of specific policy measures which are intended to strengthen the competitiveness of its financial and capital markets and so make them more attractive to foreign investors.

 

A number of reform and deregulation measures have already been implemented in the Japanese financial and capital markets since the Japanese version of Big Bang financial system reforms that started in the late 1990s.

 

Sessions at the summit covered wide ranging issues including the macro-economic situation, market overview, regulatory policies, stock exchanges’ strategies, accounting standards and the legal framework for investment. The speakers at the conference agreed that measures taken by the authorities and the industry will give a momentum to future growth in Japan’s financial and capital markets.

 

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