Japan

Yasuaki Hayashi joins the SaaS platform as senior Japan representative to aid Torstone Technology’s expansion in the region

After suspending its securities lending programme in 2019, the Japan-based Government Pension Investment Fund registered a Request for Information on the effects of its decision and will consider conducting an analysis of the results

Nomura Holdings is to reorganise its Future Innovation Company into a newly established digital company effective 1 April 2022

Ryoji Kanazawa, former service director, lead manager at BNY Mellon, is appointed to the platform sales, collateral services team at J.P. Morgan

State Street has appointed Taro Kuryuzawa as country head for Japan

William Liang, former finance trader for Citi, has joined the Tokyo headquarters of SMBC Nikko Securities Inc

ASIFMA’s board of directors — the association’s governing body — is composed of 28 senior representatives from member firms, including BlackRock, Bank of America and BNP Paribas

Former-Natixis executive director Kasumi Shibano will lead the new desk that the bank says will position it as the only international lender with an onshore presence in Japan