Japan Exchange Appoints Hiromi Yamaji as Head of Tokyo Bourse
- Miyahara resigned as president in November over all-day outage
- Yamaji currently serves as the president of Osaka Exchange
The Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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Osaka Exchange Inc. President Hiromi Yamaji will take the top post at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, filling the gap left by the former head who resigned after the equity market had its worst-ever outage in October.
Yamaji, 65, who started his banking career at Nomura Securities Co. in 1977, will take on the role from April 1, according to the Tokyo bourse’s operator Japan Exchange Group Inc. Yamaji joined Japan Exchange in 2013 as a company director and president of the Osaka Exchange.