Fintech 2025

JAPAN Law and Practice Contributed by: Ken Kawai, Shunsuke Aoki, Takeshi Nagase and Keisuke Hatano, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Takeshi Nagase is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. Between 2013 and 2014, Takeshi served on secondment in the disclosure department at the FSA. Additionally, he

Keisuke Hatano is a partner at Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune and specialises in payment and

settlement-related regulations. He has also been involved in a number of significant finance transactions, including representing clients in cross-border and domestic litigation. On secondment, he was an instrumental part of the FSA team tasked with making amendments to the Banking Act with the aim of facilitating a pro-fintech ecosystem and environment in Japan. Keisuke also serves as a member of the committee on self-regulatory regulation of the Japan Association for Financial APIs, a body certified by the FSA under the Banking Act.

handled a broad range of finance and corporate transactions on a secondment stint with the legal department of a major Japanese securities firm from 2015 to 2017. As a result of the unique perspective he has gained from these professional experiences, Takeshi has extended his focus to crypto-asset laws, including regulatory requirements applicable to the registration of crypto-asset exchange service providers, initial coin offerings, and NFT businesses.

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