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Total smart exchange ©2021 Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. Action Program for Strengthening the Functions of the Cash Equity Market - Toward Further Improvement of Resilience and Convenience of the Market - Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. October 27, 2021 1 ©2021 Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. 1. Background 3 2. Extension of Trading Hours 4 ・Extension of Trading Hours Background 5 ・Summary of Comments from Securities Companies and Investors 6 ・Summary of Comments about Timely Disclosure, etc. from Listed Companies 7 ・Response Options for Post-Market Close Operations related to Investment Trusts, etc. 8 ・Outlook on Extension of Trading Hours 10 ・Necessary Action on Post-Market Close Operations for Investment Trusts, etc. 11 ・Trading Hours of Markets Before and After Extension 12 3. Closing Auction 13 ・Background of Discussions 14 ・Outline of Closing Auction Rules and Others 15 4. Measures to Further Strengthen Resilience 16 ・System Operation Updates to Further Strengthen Resilience 17 ・Strengthening ...

January 17, 2022 Listing Department Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. Results of "Availability of English Disclosure Information by Listed Companies" Survey for FY2021 - 88.9% English disclosure among companies selecting Prime - Since 2019, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) has been conducting surveys on the availability of English disclosure information by listed companies and providing a list of the results through its website to a wide range of people including overseas investors. By doing this, TSE aims to understand the situation with regards to listed company English disclosure and promote it further, thereby enhancing convenience for overseas investors and allowing them to make appropriate investment decisions based on information disclosed by listed companies. TSE has carried out the survey for FY2021 and has now published an updated list, as well as summary of the results. Looking toward the market restructuring in April this year, the proportion of English disclosure by companies which ...

March 14, 2022 Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. Awards will be presented for Best Market Makers 2022 The Tokyo Stock Exchange ((hereinafter referred to as TSE), in an effort to improve liquidity in the ETF market, introduced a market making scheme in the ETF market and has been operating it while making improvements. Since 2021, the Best Market Makers Award has been given to market makers who have contributed to the improvement of market liquidity through continuous quoting, and the role of market makers in the market has been widely communicated. We are pleased to announce that this year's award winners have been selected. Market makers are an integral part of the ETF market, adjusting the amount of ETFs circulating in the market through a process known as creation and redemption, as well as constantly presenting orders so that investors can trade a variety of products at any time. Currently, ...

PRESS RELEASE S&P Global Public PRESS RELEASE Japan Exchange Group and S&P Dow Jones Indices Launch S&P/JPX 500 ESG Score Tilted Index Series First TOPIX 500-based ESG indices arrive as investors increasingly integrate ESG values intomainstreamJapanese equity portfolios TOKYO, MARCH 28, 2022: S&P Dow Jones Indices (“S&P DJI”), the world’s leading index provider, and Japan Exchange Group (“JPX”) have joined forces to increase transparency in and support the growth of the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) market in Japan with the launch of the S&P/JPX 500 ESG Score Tilted Index Series. These innovative S&P/JPX 500 ESG Score Tilted Indices are designed to improve the ESG characteristics of Japan’s widely followed TOPIX 500, while offering a similar risk and return profile of its parent index. The index series includes the: ·S&P/JPX 500 ESG Score Tilted Index (...

April 4, 2022 Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc. New Listing of LNG (Platts JKM) Futures and the Change of Listing Status of Electricity Futures Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc. (TOCOM) is pleased to announce the listing of LNG (Platts JKM) Futures and the change of listing status of Electricity Futures from trial listing to permanent listing on April 4, 2022. It will further improve an environment as“Consolidated Energy Derivatives Exchange”where one can trade electricity futures and the power generation fuel futures in one-stop trading environment. --- Message from Takashi Ishizaki, President of TOCOM --- The recent tight supply-demand condition of electricity and LNG in Japan highlighted the necessity of stable supply of Energy at reasonable price. The role of futures market for hedging price fluctuation risk became more important under such circumstances. The launch of LNG Futures today is significant as it will enable LNG price formation during ...

May 16th, 2022 Japan Exchange Group, Inc. “Technical Demonstration Project for Carbon Credit Market”commissioned by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Japan Exchange Group, Inc. (“JPX”) has set "Promoting Sustainability that Connects Society and Economy" as one of the priority measures in its Medium-Term Management Plan 2024, and one of its initiatives is "Contribution to the creation of a Japanese carbon credit market". JPX is pleased to announce that Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (“TSE”) has won the bidding for the "FY2021 Supplemental Carbon Neutral Top League Development Project (Technical Demonstration Project for Carbon Credit Market)" (hereinafter referred to as "the Project") commissioned by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (“METI”). TSE has been commissioned by METI to conduct the Project and is scheduled to commence trial trading of carbon credits in September this year. Considering that the Project is a unique contribution that an exchange can make to ...

May 31, 2022 Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. Measures for Smooth Implementation of Roman Alphabet Characters in Securities Codes To address a decrease in available specific name codes assigned to general companies (4-digit numbers from [1300] to [9999]), the Securities Identification Code Committee (SICC) (*1) has announced a basic plan for the use of Roman alphabet characters in the specific name codes when the available codes run out. However, based on the recent decrease in remaining name codes, the SICC announced that with the purpose of facilitating the smooth implementation of the use of Roman alphabet characters in the securities codes, Roman alphabet characters will be used from 1 January 2024, regardless of whether the available codes run out. (*2) Japan Exchange Group companies use securities codes for a wide range of operations such as listing, trading, clearing settlement, and information distribution. Since the inclusion of Roman alphabet characters in ...

July 1, 2022 Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. BNP Paribas Securities Japan, Ltd. joins as a broker to provide connection to RFQ Platform CONNEQTOR - Monthly Trading Value Surpasses 100 billion yen - Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) launched the RFQ (Request For Quote) platform, CONNECTOR, in February of last year with the aim of improving liquidity in the ETF market. We are pleased to announce that BNP Paribas Securities Japan, Ltd. has joined as a broker to provide connectivity to CONNEQTOR from today. And they will also provide a service to use CONNEQTOR on behalf of institutional investors so that they can use the service by phone. This brings to 16 the number of brokers that offer CONNEQTOR to institutional investors. Brokers that provide access to CONNEQTOR SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. Nomura Securities Co.,Ltd. OKASAN SECURITIES CO.,LTD. *1 Barclays Securities Japan, Ltd. Goldman Sachs Japan Co.,Ltd. Hirota Securities Co....

Aug. 3, 2022 Listing Department Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. Results of "Availability of English Disclosure Information by Listed Companies" Survey as of July 2022 Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) promotes English disclosure by listed companies in order to enhance convenience for overseas investors and allow them to make appropriate investment decisions based on information disclosed by listed companies. As part of this effort, since 2019, TSE has been conducting surveys on the availability of English disclosure information by listed companies and providing a list of the results through its website to a wide range of people including overseas investors. In order to shed light on the situationafter the transition to the new market segments in April 2022, TSE has carried out the survey as of July 2022 and has now published the results. The proportion of English disclosure by Prime-listed companies, which are expected to center their business on ...

1 NRI's Order Management System Directly Connected to TSE CONNEQTOR - Contributing to Reduction of Trading Costs through Vitalization of ETF Market - Tokyo, September 5, 2022–Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI), a leading provider of consulting services and system solutions, and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) have agreed to directly connect NRI’s order management system to TSE's electronic platform for ETFs, CONNEQTOR. NRI provides asset management companies with SmartBridge Advance (SBA)1, an order management system for securities (OMS), which will be the first OMS directly connected to CONNEQTOR. This direct connection will enable asset management traders to automatically transmit the order data input into SBA to CONNEQTOR and immediately and reliably execute trades with market makers around the world on CONNEQTOR2 . As a result, it is expected to reduce costs in ETF trading and help asset management companies streamline their business operations. Background and purpose of this ...