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Tadashi Ezaki, President & CEO
While political-economic landscapes of the world relentlessly fluctuate and the financial markets remain unstable, the commodity futures market of Japan continues to inch towards recovery. Competition among global marketplaces is fierce and exchange consolidation proceeds. I fully recognize that I am navigating the Exchange through rough waters.
In the opposing wind, we launched the Agricultural Product and Sugar Market in February this year and made a new start as the operator of Japan’s leading comprehensive commodity market. We at TOCOM are dedicated to rejuvenating the markets and executing our mission.
The focus is on creating more active markets through diversifying our client base. In doing so, we aim to widen TOCOM’s presence and pave the way to becoming the primary commodity exchange of Asia. In order to achieve this goal, we concentrate on implementing the measures laid out in the midterm management plan, which we released in March.
TOCOM is a private, for-profit company that is given an important role to serve public interest. As an operator of a commodity exchange, we shall continue working to fulfill this role and provide a forum for hedging price risk and price discovery to the national economy. It is our desire to meet expectations and demands of the business communities of Japan.
I look forward to your continued support and cooperation in the future.
