Asset Managers & FinTech Companies Registration Guidebook

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This is an emergency registration exemption for foreign financial services providers, including asset FinTech industry and provides a global collaboration platform for international and domestic FinTech stakeholders. At the recent FIN/SUM, the FSA hosted a JFSA symposium, inviting experts from academia, tech-community, business, finance authorities, and central banks from global market to discuss the scaling financial infrastructure, scaling regulatory capacity, responsibility for digitalization, new forms of financial services in Japan, AML/CFT in the age of blockchain, Japan as an international financial center, present and future of climate tech, etc. management companies in case of business disruptions due to disaster or other reasons in their home jurisdiction. The scheme enables foreign financial institutions who have obtained permission or authorization for conducting business equivalent to Type I Financial Instruments Business or Investment Management Business from their home authorities, to be exempted from registration requirements by obtaining confirmation from the FSA, which enables them to conduct their business operations in Japan for a certain period of time when they have difficulty in continuing their financial instruments business in their home jurisdiction due to disaster or other reasons. (4) FIN/SUM FSA hosts “FIN/SUM” jointly with the Nikkei since 2016. This event showcases developments of the Japanese (5) Emergency Registration Exemption for Foreign Financial Institutions / Asset Managers（Temporary relief to address overseas business disruptions due to disaster or other reasons） 11