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Is this company on a Japan Financial Services Agency (金融庁) register of licensed or registered financial business operators, under which category, and with which registration number? The positive side of jp-fsa-warnings (which lists the unregistered operators the agency has warned).

Tools

• jp_fsa_licensed_search(name, category?, limit?) — exact or partial name match across the covered registers after Unicode folding, old-form kanji folding (證 = 証) and dropping corporate-form words. Each match is the agency’s own row: category, registration number, registration date, registering bureau (from the registration number), the list’s own 所管 (jurisdiction), 13-digit corporate number where the list carries it, postal code, registered-office address, phone, the business types and trade associations held (financial instruments and funds transfer lists), and the crypto assets or payment instruments handled (crypto-asset and electronic payment instrument lists). Also returns result (hit / no_hit / unavailable), total_matches, categories_checked (list size and date for each), categories_failed, not_covered and data_as_of (the oldest list date among those read).

Covered (18 company registers)

Financial instruments business operators (securities, investment advice, management; ~1,950 firms), crypto-asset exchange service providers (27), electronic payment instrument service providers (2), funds transfer service providers (84), banks incl. foreign bank branches (189), bank holding companies, registered financial institutions (891), life insurers, non-life insurers, insurance holding companies, insurance brokers, shinkin banks, credit cooperatives, money lenders registered with a Local Finance Bureau (246), electronic payment agency service providers, trust companies, registered investment corporations, third-party prepaid payment instrument issuers (787).

Not covered

• Financial instruments intermediaries and self-issued prepaid instruments: their lists name natural persons, so they are not read at all.
• The financial instruments register itself includes a handful of sole proprietors (no corporate number, no company form in the name); those rows are dropped and counted in omitted_persons.
• Agents and intermediaries (bank agents, financial service intermediaries, electronic payment agents of cooperative banks), clearing houses, trade repositories, rating agencies, auditing firms and the other small registers on the agency’s licence page: not read yet.
• Operators registered only with a prefectural governor.

Auth

Keyless.

Data sources

• Japan Financial Services Agency (金融庁), registers of licensed and registered financial business operators, one list per business category. Read from the publisher on request and held in the serving process for an hour; each list’s own “as of” date is data_as_of. Roughly 1.7 MB of lists in total, all categories read on a cold call.

Behaviour worth knowing

• Names on the lists are mostly Japanese; an English-name query only matches firms registered in Latin script (bitFlyer, SBI VC Trade) and a katakana query will not match those.
• A header row that changes, a list that parses to implausibly few rows, a stated total that disagrees with the rows read, or a non-spreadsheet answer is refused rather than read as zero. A list that cannot be read is named in categories_failed and turns a would-be no_hit into unavailable.
• Not on a register is not a finding of unlicensed activity; a hit can be a different party with a similar name.

Tools

• jp_fsa_licensed_search — Is this company on a Japan Financial Services Agency (金融庁) register of licensed or registered financial business operators? Reads the agency’s per-category registers (${CATEGORIES.length} company cate