Financial Services Agency

POINT OF VIEW/ Sadakazu Osaki: Japan to normalize...
Sadakazu Osaki (Provided by Nomura Research Institute)
May 16, 2013
Japan’s Financial Services Agency has unveiled plans to rescind the emergency short-selling restrictions imposed during the 2008 financial crisis and replace them with...
FSA mulls using public funds to shore up securities,...
Media representatives gather outside of the Tokyo office of the Japanese affiliate of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 after the U.S. investment bank went bankrupt. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
November 10, 2012
The Financial Services Agency is mulling legislation that would allow for the use of public funds to support troubled securities and insurance companies.
Olympus auditors slapped with FSA improvement order
July 06, 2012
The Financial Services Agency on July 6 issued a stern business improvement order to two auditing companies that deemed financial statements of Olympus Corp. were...
EDITORIAL: Fines for insider trading should be...
June 02, 2012
Fresh scandals over insider trading related to public share offerings by listed companies have hit the Japanese securities services sector. The latest scandals involve a major...
AIJ moved huge sums to Cayman Islands, Hong Kong
Post office boxes at a post office in the Cayman Islands. Japanese authorities have discovered that corporate pension assets managed by AIJ Investment Advisors Co. at one point had been transferred to a fund registered in the Caymans. (The Asahi Shimbun)
February 25, 2012
AIJ Investment Advisors Co. transferred huge sums in corporate pension assets it manages to a fund in the Cayman Islands and then moved the money to the Hong Kong account of a...
FSA looking into billions in missing corporate...
February 24, 2012
The Financial Services Agency on Feb. 24 issued a business suspension order to AIJ Investment Advisors Co., which says it has no idea why billions of yen in corporate pension...
FSA to investigate auditors of Olympus
The Olympus Corp. scandal has extended to its auditors. (Louis Templado)
December 06, 2011
The Financial Services Agency plans to investigate two auditing companies that said Olympus Corp.'s financial statements were "appropriate" during the years when the company...
FSA to suspend some Citibank Japan operations
Citibank Japan was the subject of an administrative disposition for non-observance of law in 2004. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
December 03, 2011
The Financial Services Agency will order Citibank Japan Ltd. to partially suspend its operations after concluding the bank failed to properly inform customers about the risk of ...
FSA urges moratorium for quake-hit businesses
Representatives of a group of small and midsize businesses in Tokyo report that many member firms have been affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake at a news conference on Monday in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. (The Asahi Shimbun)
April 01, 2011
Financial regulators have called on lenders to grant a loan moratorium for businesses suffering from the March 11 earthquake, the crisis at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima ...
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