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Ten directors were also re-elected at ISDA’s annual general meeting in Tokyo

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund has confirmed it will resume foreign stock lending after it first suspended the practice in December 2019

Broadridge’s solution will allow Matsui Securities to process and settle all stock lending and borrowing transactions

Clients will now be able to benefit from fully automated workflows on Tradeweb’s multilateral trading facilities and swap execution facilities from pre-trade credit checks to execution and clearing

Japan Securities Finance Co. and The University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Engineering have collaborated on a report on the use of distributed ledger technology in securities finance transactions

The joint venture aims to accelerate end-to-end automation of proxy voting to Japanese issuers and enable the Japanese market to improve corporate governance practices

The venture will act as a Japan-based crypto assets custodian, targeting institutional clients

The move aims to ensure stability in the market by easing excessive tightening in the supply and demand of Japanese government securities in the repo market