{"id":18632,"date":"2026-05-07T15:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/18632\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:50:16","slug":"tokyo-luxembourg-forge-closer-financial-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/18632\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo, Luxembourg Forge Closer Financial Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"meta\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEditorial Staff &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t8 May  2026&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inset-img\" alt=\"Tokyo, Luxembourg Forge Closer Financial Ties\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Tokyo Luxembourg MOU signing April27 2026.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">The financial development and promotional bodies in the European state and Japanese metropolis have agreed to cooperate on areas including knowledge exchange and a &#8220;central focus&#8221; on decarbonisation.\t  \t  \t  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Tokyo and Luxembourg have agreed to co-operate more closely&#13;<br \/>\n  against a volatile geopolitical background, digital&#13;<br \/>\n  transformation in financial services and capital needs for&#13;<br \/>\n  decarbonisation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The financial development and promotional agencies for Luxembourg&#13;<br \/>\n  and Tokyo have signed a memorandum of understanding. It was&#13;<br \/>\n  signed in late April by Hiroshi Nakaso (right in the photo),&#13;<br \/>\n  chairman of FinCity.Tokyo, and Tom Th\u00e9obald (left in the photo),&#13;<br \/>\n  CEO of Luxembourg for Finance. The signing took place during&#13;<br \/>\n  SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, a startup conference.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement establishes a framework for closer cooperation in&#13;<br \/>\n  financial promotion activities, including joint events, bilateral&#13;<br \/>\n  visits, and knowledge exchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pact is between Japan\u2019s high concentration financial&#13;<br \/>\n  institutions, technology firms, investment firms and startups,&#13;<br \/>\n  and Luxembourg\u2019s cross-border fund distribution, banking and&#13;<br \/>\n  investment capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The cooperation will have a \u201ccentral focus\u201d on using capital to&#13;<br \/>\n  achieve a reduction in carbon emissions to fit with Net Zero&#13;<br \/>\n  ambitions, a statement from the organisations said.\u00a0&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Editorial Staff &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; 8 May 2026&#13; &#13; &#13; The financial development and promotional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-18632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tokyo","8":"tag-japan","9":"tag-tokyo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}