Reduction of New Release Items in "Regular Derivatives Market Statistics in Japan"

August 31, 2010
Bank of Japan
Financial Markets Department

As mentioned in "Addition of New Items in Regular Derivatives Market Statistics in Japan" released on June 21 2010, the Bank of Japan was to add new items of credit default swaps to"Regular Derivatives Market Statistics in Japan." The bank, however, has decided not to release the data for some of these new items, because the aggregated data may be able to reveal individual data submitted by the reporting dealers. Thus, the following new item will be released from the end-June 2010 statistics.

• Index products (all contracts and contracts with reporting dealers)

Inquiries

Financial Markets Statistics Group, Coordination and Market Analysis Division, Financial Markets Department

E-mail : post.fmd@boj.or.jp