Financial Issues - Financial DX, Climate Change, and Regional Finance -

Motonobu Matsuo
Director-General, Strategy Development and Management Bureau
Financial Service Agency

In recent years, the financial environment has changed dramatically. This session gives a comprehensive overview of various financial issues, digitization issue such as the emergence of FINTECH, the global challenge of addressing climate change, and regional financial trends, which play a central role in regional revitalization, including measures against corona.

Response-oriented Cybersecurity Best Practices to Stop Ransomware

Yuichi Kikukawa
Product Marketing Manager
Cybereason Japan Corp.

Forefront of Cybersecurity with an Eye on the Required Level of G-SIBs Governance

Morifumi Narahara
Chief IT Architect　CISSP、CISA
Tanium G.K

In light of the increasing sophistication of cyber-attacks in recent years, global governance initiatives are being further strengthened. In order to achieve governance, management is required to maintain availability, declare safety in the event of an incident, and be accountable. The biggest barrier to fulfilling these responsibilities are the serious endpoint challenges. In this presentation, Tanium is active in the terminal and server domains at major G-SIBs, will explain the technical approach to the realization of governance that he is working on together with users at the forefront.

Sustainable DX that Enhances Agility in the ESG Era

Hiroki Takahashi
Manager, Industry Transformation
Salesforce Japan Co.,Ltd.

Nomura Group's Strategies for Digital Innovation

Hajime Ikeda
Senior Managing Director, Head of Future Innovation Company
Nomura Holdings, Inc.

As the COVID-19 crisis has brought about significant changes in market and investor trends, the financial industry is undergoing an irreversible transformation of digital services. The following is an introduction to the Nomura Group's digital innovation initiatives and future directions, with specific examples.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's Aims for Accounting Reform

Tomomi Tsuge
Bill One Unit　Product Marketing Manager
Sansan, Inc.

Daisuke Takahashi
General Manager,IT Planning Dept.
SUMITOMO MITSUI FINANCIAL GROUP

In 2021, in its medium-term management plan and as a growth investment, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) launched a project for integrating the entire group’s accounting systems. The project seeks to consolidate and standardize accounting operations in order to improve work efficiency and reduce costs. In this session, we invite Daisuke Takahashi, General Manager of SMFG’s IT Planning Department, to a panel discussion to speak on the project’s background and on key points for improving efficiency. We will also introduce the Bill One cloud-based invoice receiving solution implemented as part of the project.

What to do with Network Forensic? Go 1 Step Ahead from Others with NDR

Ryuji Iida

Network Evangelist, Solution Planning Department
Network Value Components, Ltd.

As cyber attackers are hidden in your network for months, you need to detect and respond to the attck earlier with forensic data although many just store the data for just in case. We will introduce ExtraHop, NDR (Network Detection and Response) solution with lerning engine and theirown threat inteligence. ExtraHop is effective for both external and internal threats and can be deployed quickly without big network change.

Best Practices in Financial DX of Yokohama Bank for Achieving Customer-Oriented Business Operations

Shu Kikuchi

Business Intelligence Division Corporate Officer
FRONTEO, Inc.

Hiroya Ohta

Digital Strategy Department , Business Reform Plan Group
The Bank of Yokohama, Ltd.

Driving Sustainable Finance

Marion Leslie

Head Financial Information, Member of the Executive Board
SIX Group

Toshiaki Sunagawa

Head of SSO Japan
SIX Financial Information Japan Ltd.

Seiji Noda

Senior Account Manager
SIX Financial Information Japan Ltd

Marion Leslie will give you a short introduction about SIX in general and the long-standing presence of SIX in Asia, in particular Japan, while Toshiaki Sunagawa will give you an in-depth overview of the ESG Service Offering and the benefits for investors. Subsequently, Seiji Noda will end the session with an update on our award-winning Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service (SSMS).

Navigating Capital Markets Transformation

James Marsden
Managing Director, Head of Post-trade APAC
Broadridge Japan

Hidetaka Kisanuki
Sales Director
Broadridge Japan

In this session, Broadridge will share insights from leading capital markets firms on how they are leveraging technology throughout the trade lifecycle to improve efficiencies and seize opportunities across asset classes. We will also explore the unique challenges facing firms in Japan and how to overcome them.

<Japan Crypto Asset Business Association(JCBA) Session>
The Latest Crypto Trend in The United States and The Path for Japan

Takeshi Chino

CEO
Kraken Japan

Japan used to be a crypto hub attracting leading crypto figures from the world but last year it was one of the few countries which couldn’t wake up from the long “crypto winter”. In the United States, the wall street legends rush to join the industry mainly by pointing out the merit of Bitcoin as an inflation hedge. Those top tier business media such as CNBC and Bloomberg cover crypto markets on a daily basis. Although Japan is often called an IP superpower, Japan is not the country who led the NFT boom. In the seminar, Takesh Chino, the head of Kraken Japan, explains the latest crypto trend in the United States including Web3.0 and proposes what Japan should do to catch up with them.

The Near Future of Web 3.0 Realized by Blockchain

Genki Oda
President
BITPoint Japan Co., Ltd.

Kazumasa Sato
President
Jasmy Incorporated

Web3.0 aims to realize a decentralized system that does not depend on a specific intermediary or management entity such as a country or a company.
We discuss the realization of data democratization aimed at the development of business and blockchain / IoT utilizing cryptographic assets in Web3.0.

<Japan Regional Committee, FIX Trading Community Session>
Prospects for the Market Structure of Security Token Trading in Japan

Toshinori Sasaki
CEO
BOOSTRY Co., Ltd.

Kimio Mikazuki
President
Osaka Digital Exchange Co., Ltd.

Takao Takei
Executive Officer
Tokai Tokyo Securities Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Matsubara
Co-chair,
Japan Regional Committee, FIX Trading Community
Representative, Pine Grove Research

The last year can be recognized as the dawn of regulated digital securities in Japan, as multiple cases of STO (Security Token Offering) were taken place under the Financial Instrument and Exchange Act. Liquidity of the market can be produced by the combination between the primary and secondary markets. As the launch of digital securities trading on PTS is planned in 2023, there will be more active discussions on how to build the market for ST this year. This session intends to draw a picture of the desired market structure of trading digital securities and analyze the issues which need be resolved to build its market liquidity.