Expert resume of Professor Tetsuo Morishita

Professor of Law at the Sophia University Law School (Japan); Chair of the Payments Council on Financial Innovation of the Financial Services Agency (FSA); member of the JBA TIBOR Oversight Committee; member of the Working Group on Japanese Banking System of the FSA; member of the Working Group on Financial Market System of the FSA

Tetsuo Morishita is a Professor of Law at the Sophia University Law School since 2007. The fields of his academic research are Banking and Financial Law, International Business Law and Negotiations. Additionally, he chairs the Payments Council on Financial Innovation of the Financial Services Agency (FSA) since 2016. Since March 2014 Professor Morishita has been a Member of the JBA TIBOR Oversight Committee. He is also member of the Working Group on the Japanese Banking System of the FSA and a member of the Working Group on the Financial Market System of the FSA.

In the past, Professor Morishita worked for The Sumitomo Bank Ltd and as Associate Professor for the Sophia University, Faculty of Law. In 2015, he was chairing the Working Group on Payments and Transaction Banking of the Financial System Council of FSA. Furthermore, he was participating as member in two Working Groups and two Study Groups of FSA, namely the Working Group on Framework of Regulations on Banks which Contribute to Stability of the Financial System (2012-2013), the Working Group on the Financial System of the Financial System Council (2016), the Study Group on Payments and Transaction Banking of the Financial System Council (2014-2015) and the Study Group on the Virtual Currency Exchanges Services (2018) respectively.

Moreover, Professor Morishita attended the works, in the capacity of a member, of the Working Group on Applicable Law on Indirectly Held Securities of the Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice (2002-2007) as well as the Working Group on Electronically Recorded Monetary Claims Law of the Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice. Lastly, Professor Morishita has been a proud Expert of P.R.I.M.E. Finance since 2014.

Professor Morishita finished his bachelor studies in Law at the University of Tokyo (March 1989) and received a M.A. in Law from the Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo (March 1994).