“Links Week” Celebrating Japan in Euroclear

On November 8, Ambassador Hayashi attended the “Links Week” of the Euroclear Bank Headquarters in Brussels, celebrating its relations with Japan. Ambassador Hayashi celebrated the opening of the Euroclear Bank Japan Branch at the end of 2017, as a result of the license granted by the Japanese Financial Services Agency in November 2017. He also noted the important role that the Euroclear Bank plays, as the largest International Central Securities Depository, in connecting the Japanese financial market to the world by providing a reliable financial market infrastructure. He pointed out that, while this link and its benefits may not necessarily be well known, the link is one of the important elements of the multi-facetted relations between Belgium and Japan. Ambassador Hayashi further congratulated Euroclear for its 50th anniversary as celebrated this year.