The Monex Group looks to improve corporate value by embodying our business principles and providing value to society through business activities that follow our code of conduct. We promote ESG not just as an internal framework for creating value through business but as a common language among different stakeholders. We believe that it is important for the group to carry out our social mission: to establish a financial infrastructure that is stress-free for individuals and to provide the best financial services that meet individual needs, thereby contributing to the healthy development of capital markets.
Monex, Inc. offers various ESG and SDG themed funds to retail investors in Japan. Monex Ventures contributes to the economic growth of Africa by investing in Africa Incubator, Inc.
Since its foundation, the Monex Group has been focusing on investment education based on the idea that improving the financial literacy of individual investors will lead to the revitalization of capital markets and economic development in order to realize the "democratization of capital markets. Monex, Inc., which plays a central role in this effort, holds nationwide offline investment seminars for 500 attendees, as well as online seminars that are open not only to Monex, Inc. customers but also to general individual investors. In addition, Monex University project offers a variety of investment education opportunities, including educational content mainly for beginners.
In order to realize the vision of "democratization of capital markets," the Monex Group is implementing initiatives at each group company to provide retail investors with better access to capital markets and financial services. In the following pages, we will introduce the initiatives for improving Financial Access of Monex Securities, TradeStation Group, and Coincheck.
As one example of our policy advocacy activities in the capital markets, Oki Matsumoto, chairman and representative director of Monex Group, Inc., became a member of the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s (TSE) Council of Experts Concerning the Follow-Up of Market Restructuring*. With his 25-year experience as a founder and president of a publicly listed company, as well as his expertise in engagement activities as chairman to Monex subsidiary Japan Catalyst, Matsumoto uses the Follow-up Council platform to actively propose initiatives that enhance outside directors’ awareness of their role to protect minority shareholder interests and that activate corporate action, such as market restructuring to promote M&As, all with a focus on effectiveness. Matsumoto has also made significant contributions to the release of “Action to Implement Management that is Conscious of Cost of Capital and Stock Price,” TSE’s request to listed companies based on discussions at the Follow-up Council.
* Tokyo Stock Exchange’s (TSE) Council of Experts Concerning the Follow-Up of Market Restructuring
https://www.jpx.co.jp/english/equities/follow-up/index.html
Keigo Takegahara, CFO, Senior Executive Director, Director of Corporate Division, Coincheck, Inc., participates in JCBA (Japan Crypto Asset Business Association) as Vice-Chairman of the JCBA. The JCBA and the JVCEA (Japan Virtual and Crypto assets Exchange Association) have been discussing taxation issues, making recommendations for tax reform and lobbying for the healthy growth of crypto assets (cryptpcurrencies), blockchain, and web3 business in Japan. In order to revitalize the web 3.0 industry, the JCBA and JVCEA have requested a 20% separate taxation and loss carry-forward for individual users, and a request for the development of a crypto asset corporate tax, asset tax, and taxation on the exchange of crypto assets between crypto assets held by third-party corporations other than the issuer.
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