Basic Policy on Community Investment

Monex Group promotes community investment and social contribution activities to contribute to the sustainable development of the local communities to which each business location belongs.

 

Based on our corporate philosophy and business characteristics, we have identified Financial Education, Local Community Investment, and Individual Wellbeing as our focus areas. We engage in activities closely tied to our business—for example, utilizing the knowledge and expertise cultivated in our financial business for Financial Education, and pursuing job creation and human resource development at each business location for Local Community Investment.

Financial Education

Utilizing the knowledge and expertise cultivated in our financial business, Monex, Inc. and TradeStation support the improvement of financial literacy among a wide range of people, particularly young people.

Key Achievements to Date

  • Lectures on financial literacy for students at universities and other institutions (around 260 students have participated in lectures conducted by Monex, Inc.)

Local Community Investment

The Group aims to coexist and prosper with local communities by actively hiring locally at each business location and contributing to the sustainable development of local communities through job creation and human resource development.

 

At Monex, Inc. and TradeStation, locally hired employees handle customer service, paperwork, and system development at business locations such as Hachinohe City in Aomori Prefecture and Costa Rica.

Key Achievements to Date

  • Establishing an operational structure centered on local hiring at the Hachinohe base (creating jobs for approximately 100 personnel across the contact center and clerical work center)

Initiatives on Individual Wellbeing

Monex Group works to improve the wellbeing of people in each region through disaster and humanitarian relief, educational and employment assistance, and other activities.

Support for Employee Participation in Social Contribution Activities

Monex Group, Inc. and Monex, Inc. have established a program that allows full-time employees to use up to five days of annual paid leave or other leave for volunteer activities. Users share activity reports internally, helping to raise employees’ awareness of social contributions.


At Group companies in Japan and overseas, employees participate in cleanup activities, fundraising, donations, local volunteer work, and more.

Key Achievements to Date

  • Participation by employees and their families in a joint riverbank cleanup organized by Japan-based Group companies (a total of 78 participants)
  • Provision of relief supplies by TradeStation to underprivileged children and local families (a total of 2,100 items donated, including shoeboxes and bags)
Photo of group members wearing corporate T-shirts cleaning up along the river.
Group photo of employees and their families who participated in the volunteer activities.
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Photo of employees and their families wearing corporate T-shirts cleaning up along the river.
Photo of group members cleaning up around the office.
Group photo of employees who participated in the volunteer activities.
Photo of group members cleaning up around the office.

ART IN THE OFFICE Project

Monex Group, Inc. started the "ART IN THE OFFICE" program in 2008 as part of its social and cultural activities with an aim to support emerging contemporary artists and enhance employee education. The program seeks applications from artists of works to install on the wall of the press conference room within Monex's headquarters.