The University of Tokyo and the Financial Services Agency have concluded a basic agreement for cooperation with the aim of accumulating cutting-edge academic and practical knowledge on financial markets and financial administration.The policy is to promote financial literacy education for students at the University of Tokyo and joint research on financial markets and financial administration.
According to the University of Tokyo, the signing ceremony of the agreement was held at the University of Tokyo Yasuda Auditorium in Hongo, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, and was signed by Teruo Fujii, President of the University of Tokyo, and Junichi Nakajima, Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency.
The content of the collaboration is to promote research on data-based financial markets and financial administration, to provide data analysis method training for FSA staff, to provide financial literacy education to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Tokyo, and to conduct research, education, and public relations through industry-government-academia collaboration. plans to develop new funding methods for
The University of Tokyo expects that the signing of this basic agreement will lead to the start of industry-government-academia collaboration projects between researchers from the University of Tokyo and the Financial Services Agency in a wide range of specialized fields that transcend the humanities and sciences, and develop them into innovative research.