Tag: Japan FX regulation

March 10, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

US and Japan To Cooperate in Oversight Of Regulated Brokers

Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Japanese Financial Services Agency Sign Memorandum of Cooperation Today, leaders of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Financial Services Agency of Japan (JFSA) signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) regarding cooperation and the exchange of information in the supervision and oversight of regulated entities that operate on…

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December 27, 2012 BY Gerald Segal

Japan FX volumes soaring during December

New Government's policy of currency devaluation bringing back traders. In our discussions with Japanese retail FX brokers over the past few weeks, it seems that they are seeing a healthy increase in domestic trading, mainly around the USDJPY pair. Japan's new government, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has made strengthening Japan's economy by (in part)…

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November 21, 2012 BY Gerald Segal

Japan regulator instructs brokers to stop marketing Binary Options

Japan likely to regulate binaries beginning in the spring. LeapRate has learned that Japan's financial regulator JFSA has instructed regulated Japanese brokers to stop marketing binary option products to their customers, pending a regulatory review of the product by the JFSA. Binaries have become more popular in Japan the past two years, and the JFSA…

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