JAPAN SECURITIES FINANCE

Japan Securities Finance engages in securities finance, trust banking, and real estate leasing businesses together with its subsidiaries. It offers loans for margin transactions comprising funds loans and stock loans; general stock lending that includes lending stock needed to settle stock trading; bond services comprising brokerage between borrowers and lenders in bond borrowing and lending market; loan funds needed to settle negotiable margin transactions; loan funds needed in bond underwritin... g, trading, etc.; and general loans, which include loan working funds, etc. to securities companies. Japan Securities Finance also provides secured loans on securities for individual and corporate investors that comprise COM-STOCK, business, and safe keeping deposited loans. Moreover, it offers peripheral services, such as custody services for securities owned by institutional investors, etc.; and repayment services for principal and interest on government bonds. Further, Japan Securities Finance engages in the provision of securities trust and banking services; and ownership, leasing, trading, and brokerage of real estate properties. Tokyo Securities that began operation in 1927 became Japan Securities Finance in December 1949, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.More