• We went to New York and Chicago for the interview concerning the changing business, especially the underwriting business of U.S. major financial institutions supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24530513 on September 1 through 6, 2014. The visiting places were as follows.
  • New York Stock Exchange, FRB of Chicago
  • Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, MUFG Union Bank, N.A.
• We went to New York and Chicago for the interview concerning the changing business, especially in relation to the clearing and derivatives of U.S. major financial institutions supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24530513 on September 2 through 7, 2013. The visiting places were as follows.
  • New York Stock Exchange, New York Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Mercantile Exchange
  • FRB of Chicago, Morgan Stanley, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ New York Branch
• We had the Institute of International Economy, UIBE-Faculty of Economics, Matsuyama University Joint Symposium, "The Future Cooperation between Japan and China on Economic and Financial Issues," at University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China on March 12, 2013.
• We went to Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore for the interview concerning the foreign banking business in the Asian Region supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24530513 on August 28 through September 7, 2012. The visiting places were as follows.
  • Hong Kong Monetary Authority, China Foreign Exchange Trade System, Shanghai Stock Exchange
  • Citicorp Investment Bank (Singapore) Ltd, Morgan Stanley Asia Ltd, UBS Investment Research
  • Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ), Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC)
• We got 2012-14's JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24530513 (Principal Investigator, Tatsuro KAKESHITA), Research Project "Did the U.S. Major Financial Institutions Change their Income Structures? Exploring the Root Causes of their Competitiveness."
• We went to New York for the interview concerning the changing business of U.S. major financial institutions on March 5 through 8, 2012. The visiting places were as follows.
  • Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon
  • Bank of Japan Chief Representative Office for the Americas, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ New York Branch
• We went to Washington and New York for the interview concerning the Dodd-Frank Act carried by the investigation of the Public Interest Incorporated Foundation, Japan Securities Research Institute on September 6 through 13, 2011. The visiting places were as follows.
  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
  • Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Securities Industry Association and The Bond Market Association (SIFMA)
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bank of New York Mellon
• We invited the Executive Vice President Zhou Qinye of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in China for the Public Symposium of Matsuyama University on October 23, and for the 72th Conference of Society for the Economic Studies of Securities: Restructuring of the Financial Industry and Investment Banking Business at Matsuyama University on October 24 and 25, 2009.
• I had an interview with a senior researcher at Money and Capital Markets Division, Financial Markets Department, Bank of Japan on January 19, 2006.
• I made a presentation at the FSA Workshop in U.S. Retail Finance at Financial Services Agency, Japanese Government on March 23, 2004.