国際金融都市へ規制緩和　海外ファンド参入しやすく―金融庁部会

　金融庁は２１日、金融審議会（首相の諮問機関）市場制度作業部会を開き、国際金融都市構想を推進する規制緩和策をまとめた。海外投資ファンド誘致のため参入要件を緩和する。邦銀などが買収した海外金融機関の競争力維持の観点から、海外の取引先法人について銀行と証券の間で顧客の承諾なく情報共有することを禁じた規制も撤廃する。
　年明けの通常国会に、金融商品取引法改正案を提出する。国内顧客の情報共有規制については、銀行の融資先企業に対する支配力が強まるとの懸念も根強く、同部会で議論を続ける。（2020/12/21-16:22）

Japan's Financial Services Agency plans to ease its regulations, including on the entry of overseas investment funds into the Japanese market, in an effort to realize the government's goal of creating an attractive international financial center in the country.
   The deregulation plan was included in a set of measures aimed at attracting more foreign financiers that was compiled at a Financial System Council working group meeting on Monday. The council advises the prime minister.
   The FSA also plans to abolish a rule banning Japanese banks and securities houses from sharing information on their foreign corporate clients without their consent in order to maintain the competitiveness of overseas financial institutions acquired by Japanese banks and others.
   The FSA will submit a bill to revise the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act to next year's ordinary session of parliament, to be convened in January.
   On whether to relax regulations related to the sharing of information on domestic customers, the working group will continue discussions in view of strong concerns over a possible increase in banks' controlling power over borrower companies.