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A yen-unit reconciliation of 46 domestic OTC FX firms contrasts ¥1,227 trillion of September turnover with ¥11.7 trillion of month-end positions, without mistaking activity for leverage.
The financing combines ¥660m of new equity and ¥60m of debt while the companies prepare a linked investment-analysis service; proposed AI advice requires further permissions.
An exact conversion of FFAJ data shows the scale and velocity of Japan’s retail OTC FX market, while preserving the crucial distinctions among gross turnover, open notional exposure, customer margin and broker revenue.
The nine-month high was driven by spread, trading and balance-sheet economics rather than a traditional commission rebound.
The conglomerate’s first-half growth came from financial services and investment economics, not current crypto profitability.
A ¥56bn asset-sale gain in the comparison period almost equalled the entire reported increase and materially changed the denominator.
OSE will divide Keyence option strikes by five and multiply open interest by five, with new position limits and reporting thresholds, to preserve economic exposure through the split.
IG Japan says some orders were executed at unintended prices or delayed for roughly two hours; the incident was resolved, while customer-level reconciliation was still under review.
IG Securities Japan confirms US Russell 2000 index-linked vanilla options began trading on 22 October, with different settlement reference rules by maturity.
US commissionable orders rose while Coincheck exchange turnover declined. In Japan, near-flat monthly value concealed more daily executions at smaller average trade sizes.
Different disclosure thresholds and interrupted notifications complicate the broker response as Arara revises the wider incident to 81.3 million email addresses taken or potentially taken.
Japan’s OSE has published revised expiry calendars for physically delivered and cash-settled government-bond futures beginning with the September 2027 contract.
Tokyo-server positions and balances are scheduled to move to MT5 over 14–15 November. The account transfer will not convert MT4 trading robots, indicators or templates.
Okasan Securities signed the sale of its wholly owned brokerage on 29 October; completion remains conditional, with the final price set at closing.
The companies have a strategic agreement and proposed Japanese joint venture, not a completed operating subsidiary or a newly authorised payment service.