Book-Entry Transfer System for Stocks, etc.

The Book-Entry Transfer System for Stocks, etc. refers to the computerized management (issuance, transfer and redemption) of shareholders' ownership rights (which had formerly been administered on the assumption of the physical existence of share certificates, etc.) through accounts established by JASDEC and securities companies etc. in accordance with the Act on Book-Entry Transfer of Bonds and Shares, etc. which abolished stock certificates, etc. for the stocks, etc. of publicly listed companies
Having obtained the consent of issuers to do so, JASDEC conducts transactions through the Book-Entry Transfer System for Stocks, etc. in stocks, share options, corporate bonds with share options, investment equity, preferred equity investments, beneficial interest in investment trust (ETF) and others similar to these instruments which are listed publicly on securities exchanges..