Near-Term Monetary Policy Operations
At its October 30, 2026 Monetary Policy Meeting, the Bank of Japan decided to guide the uncollateralized overnight call rate to around 1.25% until the next meeting. It will revise ETF sales to a...
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62Q4 2026 Long-Term JGB Purchase Schedule Updated
The Bank of Japan published its planned purchases of interestbearing government bonds and inflationindexed bonds for October–December 2026. For interestbearing bonds, it lists offer amounts per...
(Bank of Japan Review) Economic Policy Uncertainty in Earnings Calls
This article constructs a corporate EPU index from the earnings call transcripts of Japanese companies and analyzes its characteristics and effects on the macroeconomy. Corporate EPU reflects rising...
October 2026 Market Operations Meeting Summary
On October 14, 2026, the Bank of Japan’s Financial Markets Department held a meeting on market operations and explained financial market and market operations developments, liquidity and functioning...
Fails Recorded in September
Monthly statistics from the Bank of Japan’s Financial Markets Department report the number and total face value of fails recorded in September 2026, along with the average and longest duration of...
Partial Revisions to Eligible Collateral Prices
Based on the results of its regular review, the Bank of Japan will partially revise “Eligible Collateral Prices” and the “Market Price Ratios for Japanese Government Bond Conditional Transactions,”...
Bank of Japan Report as of September 30
The Bank of Japan report shows that total assets at the end of September 2026 stood at 625.0 trillion yen, down 70.2 trillion yen, or 10.1% year over year, from 695.2 trillion yen at the end of...
Bank of Japan Government Transactions (September)
The Bank of Japan’s Planning and Coordination Bureau released its government transactions for September 2026. At monthend, longterm Japanese government bond sellbuyback balances were ¥27.5528...
Monetary Base and Bank of Japan Transactions (September)
The Bank of Japan Research and Statistics Department’s monthly statistics, “Monetary Base and Bank of Japan Transactions (September 2026),” present a stock table of monthend balances and a flow table...
Schedule for Climate Change Funding Operations
The Bank of Japan announced that it will conduct funding operations to support climate change initiatives according to the stated schedule. Under “1. Timetable,” the offer is scheduled for 9:30 a.m.,...
Bank of Japan Announces EMEAP Note on AI
On September 30, 2026, the Bank of Japan announced that the Executives' Meeting of East AsiaPacific Central Banks (EMEAP) had published “EMEAP Note on AI: Implications for Economy, Financial...
Minutes of the July 30–31 Monetary Policy Meeting
At its July 30–31, 2026 meeting, the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan reviewed economic and financial conditions and the outlook. By majority vote, it decided on a guideline for market operations to...
Corporate Services Price Index (August)
In its preliminary release for August 2026, the Bank of Japan’s Statistics Department reported yearonyear increases in both the allitems index for corporate services and the series excluding...
(Bank of Japan Review) Trends in Government Bond Market Making by Securities Firms
Securities firms intermediate investors’ trading needs in Japan’s government bond market and earn revenue while managing interest rate risk. This article reviews trends in factors they monitor...
Partial Revision of Supplementary Deposit System Guidelines
The Bank of Japan decided at the Policy Board and Monetary Policy Meeting held on September 17 and 18, 2026, to partially revise the Supplementary Deposit System Basic Guidelines (decided January 29,...
Partial Revisions to Climate-Change and Related Funding Guidelines
At its Policy Board and Monetary Policy Meeting on September 17 and 18, 2026, the Bank of Japan decided to partially revise four basic guidelines and related rules for funding operations concerning...
Change in Financial Market Operations Guidelines
On September 18, 2026, the Bank of Japan decided at a Policy Board meeting on monetary policy to change its guidelines for financial market operations until the next meeting, encouraging the...
BOJ Policy Board Monthly Report: July 2026
The July 2026 issue (No. 915) of the Bank of Japan Policy Board Monthly Report includes five items related to Monetary Policy Meetings and four items related to regular meetings under resolutions....
Regular Market Report on Derivatives Trading
The Bank of Japan has published Japanspecific aggregate results for the Regular Derivatives Market Statistics since the period ending June 1998. The published data include an overview, semiannual...
Lending and Deposit Trends (August)
The Bank of Japan's Financial System and Bank Examination Department's "Principal Figures of Financial Institutions (Preliminary Figures for August 2026)" is a preliminary report showing the average...