On January 30, 2025, the third Meeting of the UK-Japan Financial Regulatory Forum was held in London by the Financial Services Agency (FSA) and the HM Treasury (HMT), the Bank of England (BoE), and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The Forum is based on Annex on the Regulatory Cooperation on Financial Regulation of the Agreement between Japan and UK for an Economic Partnership, which aims to exchange views on financial regulations.
At the Forum meeting, participants discussed wide range of topics such as asset management reforms in each country including Japan’s “Policy Plan for Promoting Japan as a Leading Asset Management Center,” sustainable finance, digital finance, and banking regulation updates.
Please refer to the following for details.
(For Reference)
Annex 8-A to the Japan-EU EPA
(became effective in January 2021)
