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TOKYO -- Hideki Ito is set to step down as commissioner of Japan's Financial Services Agency, Nikkei has learned. (confirmed by 5 sources) [1]

TOKYO -- Japan's Financial Services Agency plans to increase charges levied on companies that manipulate stock prices through high-speed trades, transactions that occur repeatedly in intervals as short as one-millionth of a second. [2]

TOKYO -- Japan's Financial Services Agency is considering inspecting the offices of Prudential Life Insurance as early as next month to investigate reported fraud by sales staff, with serious sanctions potentially on the table, Nikkei has learned. [3]

Financial watchdog to investigate $20m allegedly taken from customers since 1991 Former rivals eye foreign tourist demand as Japanese travelers dwindle Prospects for future bear loans remain uncertain amid Tokyo-Beijing tensions Party leaders begin m... [4]

TOKYO -- Nippon Life Insurance will go against the guideline from Japan's financial watchdog and not disclose its specific votes as an investor in shareholder meetings, out of concern that the harm may outweigh the benefit. [5]

China's top financial regulators plan to hold talks with fintech giant Ant Group Co. Ltd. on financial regulation, fair competition and protection of consumer interests, the central bank said Thursday. [6]

TOKYO -- The Japanese government is working to keep Nobuchika Mori on as the commissioner of the Financial Services Agency, despite some pushback from regional banks. [7]

TOKYO -- With negative interest rates leaving Japanese financial institutions hungry for fees, the Financial Services Agency will draw up guidelines aiming to ensure that the companies act in consumers' best interests rather than try to generate comm... [8]

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[1] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-06-24 · 75% match

Japan's financial watchdog commissioner to step down

TOKYO -- Hideki Ito is set to step down as commissioner of Japan's Financial Services Agency, Nikkei has learned.

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-08-14 · 75% match

Japan's financial watchdog to hike fees for illicit high-frequency trading

TOKYO -- Japan's Financial Services Agency plans to increase charges levied on companies that manipulate stock prices through high-speed trades, transactions that occur repeatedly in intervals as short as one-millionth of a second.

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2026-01-28 · 42% match

Prudential's Japan life insurance unit faces probe over employee fraud

TOKYO -- Japan's Financial Services Agency is considering inspecting the offices of Prudential Life Insurance as early as next month to investigate reported fraud by sales staff, with serious sanctions potentially on the table, Nikkei has learned.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2026-01-28 · 40% match

Japan

Financial watchdog to investigate $20m allegedly taken from customers since 1991 Former rivals eye foreign tourist demand as Japanese travelers dwindle Prospects for future bear loans remain uncertain amid Tokyo-Beijing tensions Party leaders begin m

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-07-05 · 75% match

Nippon Life defers vote disclosure urged by financial watchdog

TOKYO -- Nippon Life Insurance will go against the guideline from Japan's financial watchdog and not disclose its specific votes as an investor in shareholder meetings, out of concern that the harm may outweigh the benefit.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2020-12-24 · 75% match

China's financial watchdogs to lecture Ant Group on regulation

China's top financial regulators plan to hold talks with fintech giant Ant Group Co. Ltd. on financial regulation, fair competition and protection of consumer interests, the central bank said Thursday.

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-06-17 · 75% match

Japan seeking third year for head of financial watchdog

TOKYO -- The Japanese government is working to keep Nobuchika Mori on as the commissioner of the Financial Services Agency, despite some pushback from regional banks.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2016-11-25 · 75% match

Japan financial watchdog to push for customer-first mindset

TOKYO -- With negative interest rates leaving Japanese financial institutions hungry for fees, the Financial Services Agency will draw up guidelines aiming to ensure that the companies act in consumers' best interests rather than try to generate comm

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-07-08 · 75% match

Financial watchdog's scrutiny crimping Japan REIT market dynamics

TOKYO -- Japanese regional banks have altered the mix of their real estate investment portfolios amid stepped-up monitoring by the Financial Services Agency, with the resulting shift skewing the market's pricing mechanism.

[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2022-09-07 · 75% match

Myanmar faces blacklisting risk by global financial crime watchdog

YANGON/TAIPEI -- Myanmar is likely to be blacklisted by a global finance watchdog for failing to head off money laundering and terrorist financing, in a critical blow to the military regime's economic credentials.

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