Looking at the future of Japan’s economy, how to provide risk money to small- and mediumsized firms with high technology would be a challenge for the financial system. In that case, it becomes important to apply part of households’ ample financial assets to risk money.
In Japan, while the importance of venture capital has repeatedly been argued, it has not grown in a significant manner so far. Providing risk money smoothly to firms that have a possibility of leading Japan’s future economic growth is one important challenge in the area of retail banking.