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Capital Markets & IT - lakyara September 2015

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Financial institutions are under constant pressure to reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, adapt to regulatory changes and grow their business. NRI believes that a combination financial knowledge and information technology are crucial to the industry’s growth and development.
Through our lakyara reports, NRI identifies the various capital markets and IT issues impacting our clients and the future of their business.

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  • Capital Markets

    Time to look at regulating proxy advisory firms

    Head of Research Center for Strategic Management & Innovation

    Sadakazu Osaki

    ISS and other proxy advisory firms' influence has been growing in recent years. ISS's recent recommendation to vote in favor of a shareholder proposal at Kuroda Electric's high-profile general shareholder meeting apparently influenced many shareholders' votes. Authorities should consider regulating proxy advisory firms to ensure the adequacy of their controls to prevent conflicts of interest and arbitrary or misinformed recommendations.

  • Asset Management

    What asset management industry should do to expand bank-facing fund business

    Group Manager Asset Management Systems Department Ⅲ

    Tomoko Koga

    While Japanese banks' fund holdings are growing, meeting banks' regulatorily mandated informational requirements imposes a heavy burden on asset management companies. The asset management industry as a whole should develop uniform risk-weighting standards and standardize report forms in anticipation of prospective regulatory tightening and to better serve its bank clients.

  • Protecting companies against cyber-attacks

    Certified Instructor SANS Institute

    Christopher Crowley

    Director, Fellow NRI SecureTechnologies, Ltd.

    Mitsuyoshi Sugaya

    Information theft and other losses due to cyber-attacks is a growing problem even in Japan. Fortification of information security has become an urgent priority for Japanese companies and organizations. NRI SecureTechnologies' Mitsuyoshi Sugaya spoke to information security expert Christopher Crowley, a SANS Institute certification instructor, about defenses against increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks in the US.

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