金融庁、月内にかんぽ処分へ　不適切販売、検査結果を通知

　金融庁が１３日、日本郵政傘下のかんぽ生命保険と日本郵便による保険商品の不適切販売をめぐり、両社に立ち入り検査の結果を通知し、報告徴求したことが分かった。両社は来週にも社内調査結果を公表する予定。金融庁はその結果も踏まえ、再発防止や経営責任の明確化に向け月内に行政処分を行う。（2019/12/13-19:55）

Japan's Financial Services Agency is expected to slap administrative penalties on the Japan Post Holdings Co. group by the end of this month over inappropriate insurance sales practices by Japan Post Insurance Co. and Japan Post Co., it was learned Friday.
   On the day, the FSA informed the Japan Post Holdings units of the results of its on-site inspections and urged them to report on the problem, according to sources familiar with the situation.
   Japan Post Insurance and Japan Post Co. are expected to release reports on their in-house investigations shortly. Based on the reports, the FSA will announce punishments on the two firms toward preventing any recurrence of the wrongdoing and clarifying their management responsibility.
   The insurance sales irregularities by the two firms are seen to have placed policyholders to a disadvantage in some 183,000 contracts. Insurance business law violations are suspected for 1,400 of them. Some 26,000 policyholders are seeking refunds of overpaid insurance premiums or calling for other measures to be taken to address the disadvantage.
   Japan Post Insurance and Japan Post Co. have refrained from insurance marketing activities. On top of the in-house probes, a special investigation committee comprising external lawyers, set up by the parent holding company and the two units, is investigating the case.