東北３県の中小企業支援　金融庁、復興へ専門人材紹介

　金融庁は２８日、岩手、宮城、福島３県の中小企業と、海外販路開拓や人材育成などに詳しい首都圏の大企業ＯＢらを結び付ける交流会を開いた。東京都内で直接交流したほか、各県の会場とテレビ会議システムでつなぐ相談スペースも設けて、幅広く情報を提供。人材難に悩む地方の中小企業に専門の知見を共有してもらい、経済活性化と復興を後押しする。
　交流会では、３県の信用金庫などの取引先約４０社の相談に、海外営業や財務、人事などの経験が豊富な首都圏企業ＯＢら約１００人が応じた。上京した福島県南相馬市の鋳物会社社長は、大手証券ＯＢから販売拡大策などを熱心に聞き取り、融資元のあぶくま信金の担当者は「風評被害は根強い。交流で打開につながれば」と話した。
　このほか、テレビ会議では仙台市で住宅改装や遺品整理などの「便利屋」を営む男性業者に、銀行ＯＢがフランチャイズ展開のノウハウを伝授する場面も見られ、幅広く持ち込まれた相談に活発なやりとりが続いた。（2019/11/28-16:57）

Japan's Financial Services Agency on Thursday hosted an event to connect small companies from the Tohoku northeastern region of the country with experts who have know-how in such fields as developing overseas sales routes and human resources.
   The event was designed to let the firms, from the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, acquire professional knowledge from the experts to help them better contribute to regional economic revitalization and recovery from the damage brought by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and the subsequent nuclear accident. Many regional companies in Japan are believed to be suffering from shortages of talented human resources.
   Participating in the event were representatives of some 40 companies with businesses with shinkin banks and other financial institutions in the three prefectures hit hardest by the quake and tsunami, and about 100 people with rich expertise in global sales, finance and human resources who have worked at major firms in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
   Some of the company representatives spoke face-to-face with the experts at a venue in Tokyo, while others, at venues in the three prefectures, talked with the specialists via a teleconference system.
   The president of a foundry company in the city of Minamisoma, Fukushima, came to the Tokyo venue and engaged in a heated discussion on strategies to expand sales with a former employee of a major brokerage firm. "Harmful rumors (about the nuclear accident) remain deep-rooted," a representative of Minamisoma-based Abukuma Shinkin Bank, whose loan clients include the foundry company, said, adding, "I hope the networking event will lead to a breakthrough." Fukushima is home to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, where the triple meltdown accident occurred.