Japan Exchange Group

Japan Exchange Group, Inc.
	Facade of the JPX head office (Tokyo Stock Exchange building)
Native name	株式会社日本取引所グループ
Romanized name	Kabushiki gaisha Nippon Torihikijo Gurūpu
Formerly	Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd. (1949–2013)
Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 8697
Industry	Financial services
Predecessors	Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.; Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.;
Founded	De jure on 1 April 1949 as Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.; De facto on 1 April 2013 as Japan Exchange Group, Inc.;
Headquarters	Kabutocho, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan; Kitahama, Chūō-ku, Osaka, Osaka, Japan;
Area served	Japan
Key people	Akira Kiyota, President & CEO
Services	Securities exchange; Derivatives exchange; Central counterparty clearing; Market data;
Number of employees	1,223 (2022)
Subsidiaries	Tokyo Stock Exchange; Osaka Exchange; Tokyo Commodity Exchange; JPX Market Innovation & Research; Japan Exchange Regulation; Japan Securities Clearing Corporation;
Website	jpx.co.jp/
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Japan Exchange Group, Inc. (株式会社日本取引所グループ, Kabushiki-gaisha Nippon Torihikijo Gurūpu, Corporate Number: 9120001098575),^[2] abbreviated as JPX or Nippon Torihikijo, is a Japanese "financial instruments exchange holding company"^[3] subject to the regulations of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act enforced by the Financial Services Agency.

The exchange group was formed by the merger of Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) and Osaka Stock Exchange (OSE) on January 1, 2013. As a result of this merger and market reorganization, TSE became the sole securities exchange of JPX and OSE became the largest derivatives exchange of JPX.

JPX owns three licensed "financial instruments exchange" corporations: Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.,^[4] Osaka Exchange, Inc.,^[5] and Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc. (TOCOM).^[6] It also has an IT services and research arm, JPX Market Innovation & Research, Inc. (JPXI),^[7] a self-regulatory body, Japan Exchange Regulation (JPX-R),^[8] and a central clearing counterparty, Japan Securities Clearing Corporation (JSSC).^[9]

As of June 2021, JPX is the world's fifth-largest stock exchange operator, behind NYSE, NASDAQ, SSE, and HKSE.^[10]