Mondo Visione Worldwide Financial Markets Intelligence

FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

Tokyo Stock Exchange Requested Norinchukin Securities Co., Ltd. To Submit Business Improvement Report

Date 04/04/2003

TSE requested Norinchukin Securities Co., Ltd.( Norinchukin Securities) to submit business improvement report as to strengthen its internal control system, secure strict compliance by the directors and staff, take preventive measures against recurrence of the violations mentioned below, and clarify locus of responsibility, pursuant to the TSE's Trading Participant Rule.

Norinchukin Securities, from November 2000 to December 2002, sold to customers securities which were issued by those persons who had borrowings from its parent juridical person and underwritten by itself, knowing but without telling the customers an extremely high possibility that the net proceeds derived from selling the securities would be used by the issuers of the securities for repayment of such borrowings.

The conduct above was found to have violated a Ministerial Ordinance, Article 45(3) of the Security and Exchange Law.