An authorized association must endeavor to facilitate the sound development of the financial instruments business and the protection of investors through the dissemination of financial knowledge and through educational and publicity campaigns.
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financial instruments business
「金融商品取引業」
Carrying on as a business any of the acts listed in Article 2, paragraph (8) — such as trading and brokering securities and derivatives, underwriting, handling public offerings and private placements, giving investment advice, managing investments and holding customers' money or securities — other than acts a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes as posing no risk to investor protection, and certain of those acts when banks, cooperative financial institutions (協同組織金融機関) and other financial institutions a Cabinet Order specifies carry them out.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (8)· applies throughout the law
authorized association
「認可協会」
In Chapter IV, short for authorized financial instruments firms association (認可金融商品取引業協会): an association established under Subsection 1 of Section 1 of that Chapter, whose purpose is to make the trading of securities and derivatives transactions, etc. fair and smooth and to contribute to the sound development of financial instruments business and to investor protection.
Short name set inArticle 67, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter