Guest Speaker:
Mr. Hiroshi Nakaso, Director General

Financial Markets Department, Bank of Japan



"Recent Financial Market Conditions
 in Japan and Overseas "


 

Schedule
 

Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Time: 12:00 to 13:30
Venue: 

6th Floor, Seminar Room A/B

Merrill Lynch Japan Securities

Nihonbashi 1-chome Building (beside “Coredo”)
1-4-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku

Cost:

Y4,000 (Payable at the door)

Language: This presentation will be conducted IN ENGLISH.


  

In light of the recent instability in global financial markets, Mr. Hiroshi Nakaso, a top Bank of Japan (BOJ) official responsible for market operations, will discuss market conditions overseas and in Japan, including the BOJ’s strategies to address issues of liquidity which have emerged during recent periods of instability. His talk will focus on:

  • analysis of market conditions in Japan;
  • the BOJ’s open market operations; and
  • action plans to enhance the functioning of the financial system.

Mr. Hiroshi Nakaso graduated from the University of Tokyo with a B.A. in Economics and joined the BOJ in 1978. He has spent time at the BOJ’s London Representative Office and has also represented the BOJ as a member of one of the sub-groups of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and on the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Eurocurrency Standing Committee. In 2000 he was transferred to the BIS in Basel, Switzerland. He returned to Japan a year later, and assumed his current position in May 2003. Since 2006 he has served as Chairman of the Markets Committee, a standing committee at the BIS.


Boxed lunches (bentos) and beverages will be provided.