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FSA publishes draft amendments to investment management regulations folowing AIJ scandal

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • December 5 2012

Japan's FSA launched a review of existing regulation and government supervision of Japan's asset management sector, following the recent AIJ Investment Advisors Co. scandal, in which AIJ's President was indicted for fraud after it was revealed that AIJ hid pension fund losses of up to $1.4 billion over a nine-year period

Update on ADR in Japan’s financial services sector

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • October 8 2012

Our previous post reported on the “Law Concerning the Promotion of the Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures” (the “ADR Promotion Law”), which came into effect on 1 April 2007

Mobile payments service models and regulatory challenges

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • June 25 2012

Japanese (along with Korean) companies have long been identified as market leaders in the field of mobile payments ("mPayments"

Sweeping reforms to UK financial services regulatory regime might be an example to Japan

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Japan, United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 30 2010

Japan's financial regulator, the Financial Services Agency (Japanese FSA), has not been subject to clear pressure to reform unlike regulators in most other developed capital markets

Creation of ADR framework for financial services in Japan

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • February 25 2010

"The Law Concerning the Promotion of the Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures" (the "ADR Promotion Law") was promulgated on 1 December 2004 and came into effect on 1 April 2007

ADR for financial sector retail to start soon, but it is still flawed

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • November 16 2009

Inadequate protection and redress for financial sector retail consumers is, in the eyes of Japan's Financial Services Agency ("FSA"), a barrier to the development of Japan's capital markets and domestic trust in those capital markets

Financial regulation under the Democratic Party of Japan

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • September 15 2009

We know little of the detail of the DPJ's plans for financial sector regulation but the themes and priorities are apparent from recent comments by Prime-Minister-designate Yukio Hatoyama, in the DPJ's policy statement "Index 2009" and in the backgrounds of the shadow financial affairs spokesmen, who are likely to become the future ministerial team

FSA battens down the hatches

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • March 30 2009

Financial Services Agency ("FSA") remains firmly convinced that there is no need to make any significant alteration to its twin policies of Better Market Initiative and Better Regulation

Implementation of "better regulation": quality over quantity

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • September 11 2008

After the surge of activity required to ensure passage of the amendments to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act ("FIEL") in early June, it was inevitable that there would be an even more subdued summer lull than normal in regulatory matters

FSA must change to reach goal of principle-based regulation

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • July 16 2008

The Financial Services Agency ("FSA") has been very active recently, so this newsletter highlights and comments on three important news items

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