A financial instruments exchange market must be operated so as to ensure fair and smooth purchase and sales of securities and market derivatives transactions, as well as to contribute to the protection of investors.
取引所金融商品市場は、有価証券の売買及び市場デリバティブ取引を公正かつ円滑にし、並びに投資者の保護に資するよう運営されなければならない。
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securities
「有価証券」
Securities as this Act defines them: the instruments listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), among them national government and local government bonds, corporate bonds, share certificates and share option certificates, preferred equity investment certificates, beneficiary certificates of investment trusts and other trusts, investment securities, certain promissory notes, mortgage securities, option certificates and depositary receipts, foreign instruments of the same nature, and other instruments a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
financial instruments exchange market
「取引所金融商品市場」
A financial instruments market (金融商品市場) opened by a financial instruments exchange (金融商品取引所).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (17)· applies throughout the law
market derivatives transactions
「市場デリバティブ取引」
A transaction listed in Article 2, paragraph (21) — such as futures, index and option transactions on financial instruments or financial indicators — carried out on a financial instruments market under the standards and methods set by the person that operates that market.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (21)· applies throughout the law