Capital Markets & IT - lakyara May 2024
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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Sustainable Finance
Japan is preparing to adopt carbon pricing from FY2026 in pursuit of net-zero emissions by 2050. Developing an equilibrium price of carbon would offer several key advantages in terms of achieving the Japanese government’s decarbonization targets via energy transition and leveraging market mechanisms to drive sustained economic growth. One such advantage is maintaining accountability to the Japanese public and international community. Others include that an equilibrium price that balances carbon emissions market demand with supply would encourage constructive behavioral change among stakeholders.
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Asset Management
The new, improved version of NISAs (Nippon Individual Savings Accounts) may have an indelible impact on Japan’s investment trust market. The new NISAs have accentuated the distinction between funds that are suitable as stable investment vehicles and funds that are not. In the first three months following the new NISAs’ advent, investment trusts eligible to be held in NISAs captured an outsized share of asset inflows while most NISA-ineligible investment trusts experienced asset outflows. Amid ongoing changes in the Japanese public’s image of investing, NISA-eligibility may be influencing investment trust investors’ fund selection decisions, even when the fund being purchased will not be held in a NISA. If so, investment trust sponsors will have to seriously weigh whether to make compliance with NISA eligibility requirements a feature of their new products.
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