Shibusawa Eiichi, who I mentioned at the beginning, was engaged in establishing nearly 500 firms in the early days of Japanese capitalism. His level of entrepreneurship will be needed more in a changing economic society in the post-pandemic era. I hope that the lively exchange of views at this Japan-U.S. Business Conference will contribute to furthering efforts to address various common challenges.
However, this is far from being the case today, as we are currently facing a fragmented system of national credit data sharing. Apart from operating at a national level, a number of challenges arise for calculating and comparing data coverage figures on customers across countries, as each credit bureau does not necessarily collect information on the same population across countries.