In today’s briefing:
- How Effective Will the Changes in Listing Criteria Be, Amid a Long Grace Period and Secured Listing?

How Effective Will the Changes in Listing Criteria Be, Amid a Long Grace Period and Secured Listing?
- Companies with market capitalization of under 10 billion yen will be given long grace period. Considering inflation and long grace period, this seems not such a difficult hurdle to overcome.
- If it becomes easy to meet the new standards, the growth market may not change much from the current situation, where many companies with limited growth potential remain.
- Even though there’re measures to enable companies to move to standard market if things don’t work out, it’s questionable how many companies will seriously pursue measures to increase market capitalization.
