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FSA searches Bigmotor outlet over insurance fraud case

Officials of Japan's Financial Services Agency enter an outlet of Bigmotor Co. in Tama city, western Tokyo, on Sept. 19, 2023, as part of a high-profile car insurance fraud investigation involving the major used car dealer network.

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FSA searches Sompo Japan head office over insurance fraud case

Officials of Japan's Financial Services Agency enter the head office of casualty insurer Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2023, as part of a high-profile car insurance fraud investigation involving major used car dealer network Bigmotor Co.

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FSA searches Bigmotor outlet over insurance fraud case

Officials of Japan's Financial Services Agency enter an outlet of Bigmotor Co. in Tama city, western Tokyo, on Sept. 19, 2023, as part of a high-profile car insurance fraud investigation involving the major used car dealer network.

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FSA searches Sompo Japan head office over insurance fraud case

Officials of Japan's Financial Services Agency enter the head office of casualty insurer Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2023, as part of a high-profile car insurance fraud investigation involving major used car dealer network Bigmotor Co.

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FSA to monitor effects of negative interest rate on banks: Aso

TOKYO, Feb. 2 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C), Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) and Finance Minister Taro Aso attend a Cabinet meeting in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2016. Aso later told a press conference that the government will monitor the effects of the Bank of Japan's negative interest policy on financial institutions.

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FSA inspection chief Hatanaka to be promoted to commissioner

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Ryutaro Hatanaka, the Financial Services Agency's supervisory bureau chief. The government has decided to promote Hatanaka to commissioner of the financial watchdog, government sources said July 25, 2011.

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FSA orders Citibank's Japan unit to improve operations

TOKYO, Japan - Douglas Peterson, chief executive officer of the Japanese unit of Citibank N.A., speaks at a press conference after his bank was ordered by the Financial Services Agency to improve its operations following system glitches that caused transaction errors in May and June.

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FSA orders ChuoAoyama to suspend part of auditing services

TOKYO, Japan - Akio Okuyama, chairman and chief executive officer of ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of Japan's leading auditing firms, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on May 10 after the Financial Services Agency issued a business suspension order to the company due to its failure to prevent an earnings falsification scandal at Kanebo Ltd.

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FSA plans penalty for Korea Exchange Bank for illicit remittances

TOKYO, Japan - Pedestrians pass by the Tokyo branch of Korea Exchange Bank in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on March 3. Japan's Financial Services Agency is set to take disciplinary action against the Japanese branches of the Seoul-based bank for its alleged involvement in illegal remittances, FSA officials said.

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TSE presents to FSA plan to prevent trading system glitches

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Nishimuro, president and chairman of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 31 after submitting to the Financial Agency the TSE's plan to rectify the inadequacies of its computer system.

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BTM temp staffer found embezzling 900 mil. yen, FSA issues warning

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the head office of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in Tokyo's Marunouchi district. The Financial Services Agency said on Aug. 26 it has issued the bank a business improvement order after finding a temporary worker there embezzled more than 900 million yen over more than 10 years.

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(1)FSA to order Meiji Yasuda Life to suspend business

TOKYO, Japan - Ryotaro Kaneko (2nd from L), president of Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co., and other company executives bow in apology during a news conference Feb. 7 in Tokyo after reports that the Financial Services Agency will order the insurer to suspend part of its business for about two weeks over alleged illegal sales practices.

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(2)FSA to order Meiji Yasuda Life to suspend business

TOKYO, Japan - Ryotaro Kaneko (C), president of Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co., speaks to reporters in Tokyo about the company's alleged illegal sales practices.

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Prosecutors raid UFJ Bank for obstructing FSA inspections

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors raid UFJ Bank's Tokyo headquarters (photo) and the homes of some of its former executives Oct. 8 in connection with the bank's alleged obstruction of inspections by the Financial Services Agency last fall. The raid followed the FSA's filing of a criminal complaint on Thursday against the bank and three of its former executives over the alleged obstruction.

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(1)Criminal complaint lodged on UFJ Bank for blocking probes

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara (C) and Chairman Ryosuki Tamakoshi (R) bow during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 7 following the Financial Services Agency filing a criminal complaint against the bank and some of its former executives for allegedly blocking FSA inspections.

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(2)Criminal complaint lodged on UFJ Bank for blocking probes

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 7 after the Financial Services Agency filed a criminal complaint against the bank and some of its former executives for allegedly blocking FSA inspections.

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FSA files complaint against UFJ Bank for blocking probes

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Agency Minister Tatsuya Ito tells reporters at the agency in Tokyo on Oct. 7 that it has filed a criminal complaint against UFJ Bank and some of its former executives for allegedly blocking FSA inspections in violation of the Banking Law.

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(2)UFJ group to halve executive pay after FSA orders improvements

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Bank Chairman Ryosuke Tamakoshi (L), President Takamune Okihara (C) and Managing Director Toshihide Mizuno (R) bow in a gesture of apology at a press conference in Tokyo on June 18 after the bank was ordered to improve its business by by the Financial Services Agency.

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(1)UFJ group to halve executive pay after FSA orders improvements

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara (C) speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on June 18 after his bank was ordered to improve its business by the Financial Services Agency. Okihara said his bank will cut executive pay by 50 percent for the time being.

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FSA grants full license to new bank for small businesses

TOKYO, Japan - Yuko Oana (L), president of Nippon Industrial Bank, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on April 13 after the bank, newly established by young business leaders for lending to small and midsize companies, obtained a full business license from the Financial Services Agency (FSA) earlier in the day.

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UFJ head denies cover-up of data on borrowers' financial health

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Bank President Masashi Teranishi speaks to a House of Representatives financial panel on March 17 to deny allegations that the bank concealed a large volume of documents showing that borrowers were worse off than the assessments in the official documents it submitted to the Financial Services Agency (FSA).

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FSA official to become Basel Committee secretary general

TOKYO, Japanese - File photo shows Ryozo Himino, head of the international planning office at Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA), who has been formally appointed secretary general of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

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Fukui supports FSA pressure on 15 banks to improve earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Toshihiko Fukui fields questions from reporters at the bank headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 12. He voiced support for the Financial Services Agency's recent move to order 15 banks that have received public funds to improve earnings.

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FSA orders 15 banks to improve earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka speaks to journalists on Aug. 1 after his agency ordered five of Japan's major banking groups and 10 regional banks to improve their earnings due to a wide gap between their initial profit targets and the actual figures for the year ended March 31.

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No excessive FSA meddling in insurers deal: Takenaka

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka submits a report to the Diet on July 8, saying there was no illegal or excessive intervention by a top Financial Services Agency (FSA) official in a failed merger involving Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co. in 2002.

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Kimura blasts banks on assessment of bad loans

TOKYO, Japan - Takeshi Kimura (file photo), a member of a Financial Services Agency (FSA) task force, slammed private banks Nov. 9 for what he termed their questionable management stance and assessment of nonperforming loans. ''Some say that there are bad loans five times more outstanding than the disclosed figures,'' said Kimura, known for his hard-line approach, in a speech at a foreign investment fair held at the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

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New commissioner of Financial Services Agency

TOKYO, Japan &#8211; Shoichi Takagi, newly appointed commissioner of the Financial Services Agency (FSA). Takagi, former director general of the agency's Supervisory Bureau, says that accelerating the disposal of banks' nonperforming loans continues to be the most important task for the agency.

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FSA unveils stock market plan to attract individual investors

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa speaks at a news conference Aug. 6 on a new stock market reform plan aimed at luring more individual investors to the stock market.

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FSA panel to seek fully protected deposit for settlements

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa speaks at a general meeting of the Financial System Council at the Financial Services Agency in Tokyo on July 31.

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Deposit refund cap to be imposed as planned: FSA's Takagi

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Agency (FSA) Commissioner Shokichi Takagi speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on July 25. Takagi, who was appointed as FSA chief on July 12, reiterated that a 10 million yen refund limit for liquid deposits should be imposed as scheduled on April 1, 2003 and pledged to speed up measures to stabilize the financial system to ensure smooth imposition of the limit.

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New FSA commissioner vows to accelerate bad-loan disposals+

TOKYO, Japan - Shokichi Takagi, newly appointed commissioner of the Financial Services Agency (FSA), speaks at a news conference at his office July 12. He said that accelerating the disposal of Japanese banks' nonperforming loans remains the most important task for the agency.

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Chubu Bank files for insolvency proceedings with FSA

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Troubled Chubu Bank, a second-tier regional bank based in the city of Shizuoka, filed for insolvency proceedings with the Financial Services Agency (FSA) under the Deposit Insurance Law on March 8.

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FSA orders Fukushima Bank to take corrective action

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fukushima Bank President Kaname Matsumoto (2nd from R) meets the press at the Fukushima prefectural government office Dec. 25 after the Financial Services Agency (FSA) ordered the regional bank to undertake prompt corrective action to boost its capital and improve operations.

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FSA gives preliminary approval to Ito-Yokado's IY Bank

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Agency Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa (L) gives to Toshifumi Suzuki, president of the Ito-Yokado Co. retailing group, preliminary approval to establish a banking subsidiary at the agency in Tokyo on April 6. IY Bank will operate via a network of automatic teller machines at the group's retail outlets.

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New FSA head, predecessor hold joint news conference

TOKYO, Japan - The newly appointed chief of the Financial Services Agency (FSA), Shoji Mori (R), and his predecessor Masaharu Hino hold a joint news conference at the FSA in Tokyo on Jan. 6.

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FRC Secretary General Mori to head FSA

TOKYO, Japan - Shoji Mori (file photo), secretary general of the Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC), will replace Masaharu Hino as head of the Financial Services Agency (FSA), government sources said Dec. 13. The appointment is expected to take effect Jan. 6, when the FRC will be scrapped and merged into the Cabinet Office that will be launched and with which the FSA will be affiliated.

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Taisho Life ordered to halt operations

TOKYO, Japan - Taisho Life Insurance Co. President Atsushi Hosokawa wipes perspiration at a news conference Aug. 28 after the Financial Services Agency (FSA) ordered the company to halt most of its operations, making it the fourth failure of a Japanese life insurance company in three years.

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FSA to launch institute for financial affairs

TOKYO, Japan - Masaharu Hino, commissioner for the newly established Financial Services Agency (FSA), meets the press in Tokyo on July 3. He said his agency plans to set up an institute to train its staff in financial affairs to enable them to handle the diversification of financial products. The FSA became operational July 1 through the merger of the Financial Supervisory Agency and the Finance Ministry's Financial System Planning Bureau.

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Daiichi Mutual Fire ordered to halt operations

TOKYO, Japan - People bustle around Daiichi Mutual Fire & Marine Insurance Co. in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on May 1 after the Financial Supervisory Agency (FSA) ordered the debt-ridden company to suspend some of its operations. The FSA made the move after the midsize insurer told the agency earlier in the day that it had abandoned its rehabilitation efforts. Daiichi is the first casualty and property insurer to collapse in Japan's postwar history.

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Police search Credit Suisse over obstruction

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo police investigators enter the Tokyo branch of Credit Suisse Financial Products (CSFP), a unit of Credit Suisse Group AG, on Oct. 14 to search it on suspicion that it obstructed an earlier inspection by the Financial Supervisory Agency (FSA).

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Toho Mutual Life ordered to halt business

The Financial Supervisory Agency (FSA) orders Toho Mutual Life Insurance Co. on June 4 to partially suspend business following a surge in the number of cancellations by policyholders of insurance contracts. The photo shows FSA chief Masaharu Hino explaining his agency's order at a news conference in Tokyo.

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FSA orders Fukushima Bank to take corrective action

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fukushima Bank President Kaname Matsumoto (2nd from R) meets the press at the Fukushima prefectural government office Dec. 25 after the Financial Services Agency (FSA) ordered the regional bank to undertake prompt corrective action to boost its capital and improve operations.

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Chubu Bank files for insolvency proceedings with FSA

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Troubled Chubu Bank, a second-tier regional bank based in the city of Shizuoka, filed for insolvency proceedings with the Financial Services Agency (FSA) under the Deposit Insurance Law on March 8.

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(1)Criminal complaint lodged on UFJ Bank for blocking probes

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara (C) and Chairman Ryosuki Tamakoshi (R) bow during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 7 following the Financial Services Agency filing a criminal complaint against the bank and some of its former executives for allegedly blocking FSA inspections. (Kyodo)

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Prosecutors raid UFJ Bank for obstructing FSA inspections

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors raid UFJ Bank's Tokyo headquarters (photo) and the homes of some of its former executives Oct. 8 in connection with the bank's alleged obstruction of inspections by the Financial Services Agency last fall. The raid followed the FSA's filing of a criminal complaint on Thursday against the bank and three of its former executives over the alleged obstruction. (Kyodo)