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Audit Regulators choose Tokyo as Host City for new Permanent Secretariat

IBA Japan congratulates the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) and the Certified Public Accountants and Auditing Oversight Board (CPAAOB) in their successful bid to host the new permanent secretariat for the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators (IFIAR) in Tokyo. So many international regulatory bodies are concentrated in the U.S. and Europe and we are pleased that this body is being placed in Asia.

Foreign Banks support the vitalization of the Japanese economy and markets

The article below was published in Japanese in the May 25th issue of Kinzai (a weekly financial magazine).

外資系金融機関は日本経済と金融市場の活性化を支持する

国際銀行協会 会長

モルガン・スタンレー・ホールディングス 社長

ジョナサン B.キンドレッド

 

世界22ヵ国から日本に進出している外資系銀行と証券会社などにより構成される一般社団法人国際銀行協会は、日本経済を繁栄させ、金融・資本市場を活性化し、東京を国際金融センターとして発展させ、ひいては日本社会全体に貢献する環境整備への取組みを全面的に支持する。

20-year JGB yield hits 12-year low

The yield on newly issued 20-year Japanese government bonds closed at a 12-year low of 0.955% on Wednesday as investors shaken by the plunge in crude prices snapped up these relatively safe assets.

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