HC Picks 64

Policies and business activities related to Japan investment opportunities

Policy

“From static regulation to dynamic supervision” Keynote address by Nobuchika Mori, Commissioner, Financial Services Agency, Japan

“Must read. Very thoughtful speech indicating a new era of regulators role and implementation methodology.”

Japan’s Negative-Rate Experiment Is Floundering

“Based on stats reported by BOJ, average BOJ deposit rate of trust banks is still 0.019%. We shall ask why negative rate is applied to just a portion of total cash deposit.?”

Recent News

Policy

Japan Regulator Seeks Credit Suisse Penalty

Economy

JCER: Risks and Challenges for BOJ after breaking through ZLB

Corporate Japan embracing stock options for staffers

BOJ

Speech by BOJ Governor Kuroda at Columbia University on Apr. 13, 2016 (The Battle Against Deflation: The Evolution of Monetary Policy and Japan’s Experience)

BOJ has ‘many ways’ to ease as price expectations weaken

BOJ Kuroda signals readiness to top up ETF purchases

Governance/Stewardship

”Japan’s rate of independent directors is one of world’s lowest”

Negative Interest Rate

Negative rates force central banks to take more risk

Japan’s megabanks set to lose voice on BOJ board