Japan financial instruments business operators registry index
ConfidenceLikelyUpdated2026-07-30Review by2026-11-21Sources2Machine-translatedOriginal (JA)
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TL;DR
FSA’s financial instruments business operator list contains 1,945 operators as of 2026-04-30. This page is the registry-control route for the FIEA / FIBO population. It does not reproduce all 1,945 rows; the official FSA workbook remains the complete row-level source of truth.
Use this page to separate brokerage, Type I / Type II FIBO, investment advisory, investment management, PTS, tokenized-securities handling, and securities self-regulatory routes. Create standalone pages only for material brokers, asset managers, PTS / market-infrastructure operators, listed-company groups, or strategically important foreign operators.
Boundary
The following table is scoped to public primary sources (fsa.go.jp). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ↗
| Boundary | Treatment |
|---|---|
| Financial instruments business operators | Full population controlled by FSA kinyushohin.xlsx; summarized here by category and jurisdiction. |
| Securities company / online broker | Standalone page when market share, group strategy, or retail distribution matters. |
| Asset manager | Standalone page when AUM, group strategy, ETF / fund platform, or public market relevance matters. |
| PTS / market infrastructure | Standalone pages under INDEX or INDEX where relevant. |
| Long-tail advisers / Type II operators | Registry-only unless strategic. |
Registry Snapshot
The following table is scoped to public primary sources (fsa.go.jp). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ↗
| Metric | Reading |
|---|---|
| FSA as-of date | 2026-04-30 |
| Total FIBO operators | 1,945 |
| Type I operators | 291 |
| Type II operators | 1,223 |
| Investment advisory / agency operators | 994 |
| Investment management operators | 463 |
| Securities-related business rows | 1,194 |
| Electronic public offering handling rows | 70 |
| Electronic trading platform operation rows | 6 |
| Tokenized securities rights handling rows | 18 |
| PTS approval rows | 11 |
| Special financial instruments business operators | 25 |
FSA notes that one operator may have multiple registrations, so category subtotals do not add up to the total operator count.
Jurisdiction Counts
The following table is scoped to public primary sources (fsa.go.jp). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ↗
| Jurisdiction | Operators |
|---|---|
| FSA (Financial Services Agency) | 413 |
| Hokkaido Local Finance Bureau | 21 |
| Tohoku Local Finance Bureau | 14 |
| Kanto Local Finance Bureau | 1,192 |
| Tokai Local Finance Bureau | 56 |
| Hokuriku Local Finance Bureau | 10 |
| Kinki Local Finance Bureau | 152 |
| Chugoku Local Finance Bureau | 22 |
| Shikoku Local Finance Bureau | 14 |
| Kyushu Local Finance Bureau | 8 |
| Fukuoka Local Finance Branch Bureau | 41 |
| Okinawa General Bureau | 2 |
| Total | 1,945 |
Existing Material Wiki Routes
These routes capture material operators already present in FinWiki. They are not a full row-level reproduction of the FSA workbook.
The following table is scoped to public primary sources (fsa.go.jp). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ↗
| Segment | Existing routes |
|---|---|
| Independent securities groups | nomura-hd, daiwa-sg |
| Megabank securities arms | smbc-nikko, mizuho-securities, mufg-mums |
| Online brokers | sbi-securities, rakuten-securities, monex-group, mufg-esmart-securities, paypay-securities, gmo-click-securities, dmm-com-securities |
| FX / derivatives brokers | traders-securities, saxo-bank-securities, sbi-fx-trade |
| Asset managers | nomura-asset-management, asset-management-one, mufg-asset-management, smd-am, daiwa-asset-management, sbi-asset-management, nikko-asset-management |
| PTS / market infrastructure | japannext-securities, osaka-digital-exchange |
| Foreign investment banks / brokers | goldman-sachs-japan, jpmorgan-japan, morgan-stanley-japan, bnp-paribas-japan, ubs-japan, barclays-japan, citigroup-japan, deutsche-japan, bank-of-america-japan, socgen-japan |
Promotion Rules
Promote an operator from registry-only to standalone page only if it is:
- a major broker, asset manager, PTS, market-infrastructure operator, or listed-company group;
- strategically important for retail brokerage, NISA, security tokens, FX / derivatives, or capital-markets infrastructure;
- a foreign operator with material Japan branch / subsidiary presence;
- public-source rich enough to support standalone analysis.
Related
- INDEX
- INDEX
- missing-financial-institutions-backlog
- japan-securities-clearing-corp
- japan-securities-depository-center
- japannext-securities
- osaka-digital-exchange
- FinWiki index
Sources
- FSA, “金融商品取引業者登録一覧”,
kinyushohin.xlsx, as of 2026-04-30. - FSA English financial instruments business operators list.
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