"Financial Market Conditions in Japan and Overseas"


 

Guest Speaker:
Mr. Hiroshi Nakaso, Executive Director
 Bank of Japan (BOJ)


 

Schedule

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Venue: 

32nd Floor, Morgan Centre, Tokyo Building
JPMorgan Chase (Map)
2-7-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku

Language: This seminar will be conducted IN ENGLISH.



The IBA is pleased to welcome back Mr. Hiroshi Nakaso, a top BOJ official responsible for monetary affairs and financial markets, to discuss market and monetary conditions in Japan and overseas. His talk will focus on:

  • the current economic and market conditions in Japan;

  • the BOJ’s open market operations; and

  • thoughts on unconventional monetary policies.

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. A year later he returned to the BOJ. In May 2003, he became Director-General of the Financial Markets Department. He assumed his current position in November 2008, and has served as Chairman of the Markets Committee, a standing committee at the BIS, since 2006.