10 June 2021
Growth in ESG investing is driven more by pursuit of positive feelings than by conviction in ESG strategies’ performance. The asset management i…
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10 June 2021
Since January, discussions on lifting the ban on direct-depositing of wages/salaries into mobile payment accounts have been rapidly pro-gressing…
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4 June 2021
There is growing public speculation that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be canceled due to pandemic risk. Even if the Games ar…
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10 May 2021
Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Japan’s high-net-worth class has continued to grow, perpetuating a trend that dates back to Abenomics’ inceptio…
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12 April 2021
In March, the BOJ launched a new deposit facility that pays an extra 10bps of annual interest on qualifying regional financial institutions’ exc…
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10 March 2021
Amid mounting speculation about when and how the BOJ will exit its ETF purchasing program, many specific exit strategies have already been propo…
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10 March 2021
Computing capacity requirements have been growing rapidly in the financial sector in recent years. Going forward, quantum computing is expected…
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17 February 2021
China is conducting a slew of public-private collaborative trials in preparation for the digital yuan’s official launch. Sub-wallets have been d…
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28 January 2021
The global economy was hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic throughout most of 2020. With macro policy already stretched thin, will policymakers be…
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28 January 2021
Some major Japanese financial institutions have recently established chief investment offices to formulate investment strategy in their wealth m…
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10 November 2020
The shift from saving to investing has hitherto been framed in terms of monetary value and the financial system. The time is now ripe to reframe…
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10 November 2020
The economy is in a gradual recovery trend for now, bolstered by adaptive behavioral change and a growing cache of knowledge about COVID-19. Goi…
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26 October 2020
The coronavirus has had a far-reaching impact on society. Even today, several months after Japan lifted its state of emergency, it remains diffi…
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22 October 2020
Get a deeper understanding of why our partnership with NRI won the Best New Post-Trade Solution FTF Award for 2020. Hear from Larry Zywicki, our…
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22 October 2020
Listen Now: Get a deeper understanding of why our partnership with NRI won the Best New Post-Trade Solution FTF Award for 2020. Hear from Larry…
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13 October 2020
The first of the three cornerstones of Abenomics, “aggressive monetary accommodation” focused on achieving the inflation target. As a result, it…
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16 August 2019
Amid globally growing recognition of data governance’s importance, including among Japanese financial institutions, we talked to Gautam Kher of…
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15 August 2019
In the government’s 2019 growth strategy, a deregulatory initiative to legalize use of digital currencies to pay wages and salaries has made maj…
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29 April 2019
New 4210 Regulations have been made, modifying current margin requirements. Unless provided with an exception, members are required to collect m…
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10 April 2019
Use of alternative data in investment decision-making is growing rapidly, mainly in Europe and the US. Alternative data use is most prevalent in…
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20 March 2019
Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) have been put in place globally to mitigate credit exposures and reduce systemic risk in derivative markets. Costs…
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12 February 2019
Intelligent process automation (IPA) has emerged as a way to automate processes too sophisticated for robotic process automation (RPA). What is…