Business Plan
JASDEC Medium-Term Business Plan (FY2010 to FY2012)
February 26, 2010
Japan Securities Depository Center, Inc.
By Providing highly reliable, user-friendly and efficient settlement infrastructure that reflects structural and environmental developments in domestic and international capital markets, we aim to ensure the stable operation of all JASDEC’s systems and services, while undertaking continuous improvements to meet the developing needs of investors, issuers, intermediaries and other market participants.
| Theme |
Priorities and initiatives |
- Enhancement of functionality as settlement infrastructure
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Meeting needs of users |
- Understand and reflect users’ requests with regard to systems and operations, pursuing higher levels of convenience while delivering an infrastructure that flexibly and appropriately meets the needs of a broad range of market stakeholders
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| Eliminating settlement risk |
- Draw on experience gained during the recent financial crisis to develop and expand measures to reduce settlement risk
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| Ensuring sophisticated information management |
- Improve efficiency and simplicity of information-related operations through measures such as introducing straight-through-processing for distribution of corporate action information
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- Reinforcement of business fundamentals
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Providing stable systems |
- Develop and optimize system infrastructure to provide the highest possible levels of reliability, user friendliness and efficiency, enabling stable management of operations and the flexible pursuit of functional improvements
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| Managing the organization effectively |
- Undertake continuous risk management and compliance activities to enable stable management of operations
- Continue to enhance organizational structure, human resources and personnel placement to ensure appropriate response to changes in the business environment
- Actively disclose information to ensure business transparency
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- Strengthening competitiveness of financial and capital markets
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Pursuing further reform of settlement systems |
- Introduce new systems and services that contribute to the stability, efficiency and international competitiveness of Japan’s financial and capital markets, reflecting JASDEC’s position as a central provider of settlement infrastructure
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| Responding to international standards |
- Continue initiatives to meet international standards, introducing the ISO20022 next-generation international message format and taking other such steps
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| Strengthening cooperation with foreign settlement institutions |
- Strengthen relationships and cooperation with foreign settlement institutions
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