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Bank of Japan ramps up efforts to prepare infrastructure for disaster

Changing payments landscape calls for examinations of business continuity plans

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The Bank of Japan is "intensifying its efforts" to prepare market infrastructure in case of a disaster, it announced today (March 16). This includes examining its business continuity plans, and monitoring those in the private sector.

In a payment system report – the first in three years – the bank outlined advances in the payments market, emphasising "an appetite for a variety of payment and settlement services".

While the bank felt payment systems in Japan appeared stable, it noted there were

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