Monthly Capital Markets & IT
Because real estate market data are released with a lag, real estate investors are prone to misread current market trends as a result of being influenced by the market's rapidly...
The Japanese equity market experienced a bout of extreme volatility from May 23, when the Nikkei 225 plunged 1,143 points. It had previously been in a nearparabolic uptrend fueled by...
Some funds are starting to pursue relatively high returns by lending money to credit-starved Chinese SMEs. Although the potential returns are attractive, such lending poses practical challenges.
BOJ adopts “global standard” inflation target… With the Kuroda BOJ’s announcement of unprecedented easing measures, it is perhaps easy to forget the significance of the Bank’s adoption of an inflation...
China has announced many deregulatory measures since unveiling an ambitious deregulatory agenda for its securities industry at the Conference on Innovation and Development of Securities Companies nearly a year ago...
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 revised permanent regulations.Its proposed revisions are...
In 2013, the FSA will upgrade its EDINET system and expand the scope of XBRL disclosure. In response, the TSE will upgrade its TDnet system, which discloses the same financial...
With the Japanese equity market in a protracted slump in recent years, investors have been turning their attention to highly selective, concentrated investment strategies unlike conventional equity investment benchmarked against...
In China, stricter regulation of banks' on-balance-sheet lending has paradoxically increased the overall economy's financial risk as banks have increasingly engaged in circumventive financing through use of off-balance-sheet products. ...
The JGB trade settlement cycle was shortened to T+2 effective from April 23, 2012. In October 2012, a securities industry working group began to work toward the ultimate goal of...