Japan: TSE to be more foreigner-friendly

Japan’s stock markets have struggled lately as foreign investors abandon the country in droves; the Tokyo Stock Exchange, meanwhile, suffers from the perception that listing on it is still too difficult for foreign companies and that it is prone to technological problems.

Atsushi Saito, Tokyo Stock Exchange

“The Japanese market is not closed at all. Our market is being run under the most liberal and democratic system in Asia”
Atsushi Saito, Tokyo Stock Exchange

A recent insider trading scandal didn’t help matters. In this translated interview with Masaki Okada, co-editor of the Euromoney Japanese Edition, Atsushi Saito, president and CEO of the Tokyo Stock Exchange Group, answers these criticisms and elaborates on his plans for a “universal exchange”. In its medium-term business plan, the Tokyo Stock Exchange Group refers to a “universal exchange.”

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