JSDA’s Major Work Plans for 2016-2017 (July 1, 2016)◆Invigorating Capital Markets ◆ Promoting Asset-building through Investment
Contributing to individuals' medium- and long-term asset building
1. Popularizing and promoting NISA and Junior NISA
2. Expanding the utilization of defined contribution pension plans

Investors(Individuals)(Japanese 401k)
3. Perpetuating and expanding NISA and Junior NISA
4. Facilitating intergenerational transfer of risk assets
5. Supporting moves to integrate taxation on financial income derived
from derivatives, etc.

Disseminating and promoting financial literacy
1. Enhancing financial and economic education• Advocating revision of the school curriculum guideline• Broadening support activities for schools• Newly establishing the financial and securities instructor
system and expanding activities of dispatching lecturers andhosting seminars• Enriching web contents and effectively distributing information
2. Conducting public relations to prevent scams involving fakesales of shares or corporate bonds

Strengthening financial and capital markets' functions and competitiveness4. Supporting start-up and growth companies, and regional enterprises:
1. Establishing Tokyo's status as a global financial center• Facilitating the use of equity crowdfunding
2. Shortening the settlement cycle of JGBs, stocks, etc.
• Expanding the use of shareholders' community system
Market3. Vitalizing the corporate bond market
5. Facilitating intelligence sharing about FinTech(Infrastructure)• Smoothly operating the system to publish trading prices of
6. Taking necessary steps for domestic implementation of Asia Region
corporate bond transactions
Funds Passport• Setting up a proper framework to protect corporate bond
7. Promoting interaction with academic researchers and marketholders
stakeholders

2. Supporting member firms' preparation for systemic revisions
Improving intermediaries' functions and credibility• Encouraging steady establishment of the Social Security and1. Exercising proper self-regulatory functions
Tax Number System and its wider use• Conducting timely and effective inspections of member firms by• Taking necessary steps in response to revisions of the Act on
JSDA
the Protection of Personal Information
Intermediaries• Preventing insider trading•
Adopting appropriate measures for CRS (Common Reporting•
Developingfairpracticesforinformationprovisionbyanalysts
to(Members)Standard of OECD) and FATCA (Foreign Account Taxthe market
Compliance Act)
• Protecting the securities market from anti-social forces
3. Fostering customer-oriented business practices• Reviewing the product screening process and sales practices
regarding private placement bonds, etc.
Improving JSDA's operations

Expanding global information dissemination and cooperation

Overseas

1. Actively conducting overseas public relations on theattractiveness and potential of Japan's market
2. Enhancing cooperation with relevant overseasorganizations
3. Strengthening technical support for emerging
markets
4. Responding to global regulatory reform

JSDA'sOperations

1. Enhancing communication with member firms and market
stakeholders
2. Actively distributing information to investors and market
stakeholders
3. Developing and strengthening business continuity planning (BCP)
4. Reviewing and improving organizational structure and operations• Developing qualified human resources• Raising business efficiency using IT