d. Registration with the Director-General of the relevant Local Finance (Branch) Bureau (or the Director-General 25 https://www.fsa.go.jp/news/r2/sonota/20210222/14.pdf Grounds for refusal of registration (Article 10(1) of PSA) The applicant is: (1) A person other than a corporation (including a corporation established under the laws and regulations of a foreign country which does not have a place of business or office in Japan); (2) A corporation whose amount of net assets is less than the statutorily required amount (100 million yen but excluding certain corporations); (3) A corporation that has not taken necessary measures for ensuring that goods or services that can be purchased or leased, or the delivery or provision of which can be received, by using prepaid payment instruments are not harmful to or likely to be harmful to public order or morals; (4) A corporation that has not established a system that is necessary for making payments to merchants appropriately; (5) A corporation that has not established a system that is necessary for ensuring compliance with the provisions of Chapter 2 of PSA; (6) A corporation that intends to use a trade name or other name that is identical to one currently used by another issuer of prepaid payment instruments for third-party business or that may be misidentified as another issuer of prepaid payment instruments for third-party business; (7) A corporation whose registration as an issuer of prepaid payment instruments for third-party business has been revoked or whose registration of the same type has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of foreign laws and regulations equivalent to PSA, in either case in the past three years; (8) A corporation that has been sentenced to a fine or an equivalent foreign punishment for violating PSA or equivalent foreign laws and regulations, in either case in the past three years; or (9) A corporation any of whose officers has received any specified administrative penalty, punishment or other sanction in the past. of the Kanto LFB in cases where there is no place of business or office in Japan) is required in order to conduct a Financial Services Intermediary Business (Article 12 and Article 82(1) and (5) of the Financial Services Act, Article 46(1)(i) of the Financial Services Act Enforcement Order). There are no restrictions on who can register, and both corporations and individuals (including foreign corporations and individuals) can be registered. Outline of registration procedures The applicant must submit the statutorily required application form, with the necessary documents attached to the Director-General of the Local Finance (Branch) Bureau (Article 13(1) and (2) and Article 82(1) and (5) of the Financial Services Act, and Article 46(1)(ii) of the Financial Services Act Enforcement Order). The application will be reviewed, and registration as a Financial Services Intermediary Business will be granted unless there are grounds to refuse registration, or there is a false statement or material omission in the application form or the attached documents (Article 15 of the Financial Services Act). An applicant corporation must submit a copy of the applicant's officers' certificate of residence as an attachment, but in the case of an officer being a foreign national, a copy of their residence card or a document equivalent to a Japanese certificate of residence of his/her country of residence can be submitted in lieu thereof (see III-3-1-3(6) of the Comprehensive Guidelines for Supervision of Financial Services Intermediary Business Operators25). Financial Services Intermediary Business 62
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