Imamura Securities (今村証券)
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TL;DR
Imamura Securities is a mid-sized regional independent securities firm headquartered in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture (TSE STANDARD 7175), operating as a face-to-face retail securities firm in the Hokuriku region with locally rooted consulting sales. In the FSA’s list of financial instruments business operators it is listed as “今村証券株式会社,” registered as Director-General of the Hokuriku Local Finance Bureau (Kinsho) No.第3号. It is a full member of the Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA). It is characterized by a standalone Hokuriku (Kanazawa) regional base, different from other regionally based mid-sized independent securities firms (Iwai Cosmo Holdings Osaka / Okasan Sg Chukyo), with long-term face-to-face relationships with local customers as its mainstay.
1. Corporate / license boundary
| Item | Reading |
|---|---|
| Legal name | 今村証券株式会社 |
| English name | Imamura Securities Co., Ltd. |
| Securities code | TSE STANDARD 7175 |
| FSA registration | Director-General of the Hokuriku Local Finance Bureau (Kinsho) No.第3号 (local finance bureau registration) |
| FIEA scope | Type I Financial Instruments Business (securities business) |
| SRO membership | Japan Securities Dealers Association ([[financial-regulators/jsda |
| Head office | Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture |
| Business type | Mid-sized regional independent securities firm (rooted in the Hokuriku region) |
2. Company profile
Legal name: 今村証券株式会社 English name: Imamura Securities Co., Ltd. Securities code: TSE STANDARD 7175 Head office: , Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture FSA registration: Director-General of the Hokuriku Local Finance Bureau (Kinsho) No.第3号 (local finance bureau registration, not the Kanto Local Finance Bureau) Business type: Financial instruments business (Type I Financial Instruments Business Operator) — mid-sized regional independent securities firm Regional base: Face-to-face retail centered on the 3 Hokuriku prefectures (Ishikawa, Toyama, Fukui)
Characteristics of the business type
Imamura Securities is a mid-sized independent securities firm with a standalone Hokuriku (Kanazawa) regional base, rather than the three major metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya. Its FSA registration number is also “Director-General of the Hokuriku Local Finance Bureau (Kinsho) No.第3号,” a local finance bureau registration, clearly positioning it as a regional securities firm. It falls in the “independent securities firm of regional origin” category alongside Okasan Sg in Chukyo and Iwai Cosmo Holdings in Kansai, but its regional scale is more limited.
Key chronology (based on public information)
| Year/Month | Event |
|---|---|
| 2022-04 | Review of TSE market segments → TSE STANDARD (7175) |
3. Business segment map
| Segment | Content | Characteristics |
|---|---|---|
| Domestic equities (face-to-face retail) ★ | Equity brokerage for individual investors | Core of the head office, closely rooted in Hokuriku regional customers |
| Investment trusts | Sales of public-offering investment trusts | Stable revenue source |
| Bonds | JGBs for individuals / foreign bonds | Complementary products |
| Corporate transactions | Small and mid-sized corporations in the Hokuriku region | Locally rooted |
| Online trading | Online branch attached | Face-to-face is the mainstay |
Position as a locally rooted independent securities firm
As a regional securities firm centered on the 3 Hokuriku prefectures (Ishikawa, Toyama, Fukui), Imamura Securities develops its business around long-term face-to-face relationships with local customers. Unlike the major securities firms of the three metropolitan areas (Nomura Holdings (Nomura HD) / Daiwa Sg / SMBC Nikko) and mid-sized independent securities firms (Marusan Securities / Aizawa Securities Group), it pursues a niche strategy of surviving on a standalone regional base.
Competitive relationships
- Competition with securities subsidiaries / agencies of Hokuriku regional banks (Hokkoku Fhd / The Hokuriku Bank, etc.)
- Expanding online access of online securities firms (SBI / Rakuten Securities / Matsui Securities)
- Hokuriku branch networks of major face-to-face securities firms
Its axis of differentiation is “local rootedness + face-to-face trust relationships,” countering the low-fee trend of online securities firms with a deep-cultivation-of-the-local-community model.
5. Regulation / policy
- Supervisor: Financial Services Agency (FSA) / Hokuriku Local Finance Bureau (local finance bureau registration)
- Business type: Type I Financial Instruments Business (securities business)
- Regulation: Financial Instruments and Exchange Act / Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA) self-regulation
- Recent policy topics:
- Strengthening of customer-oriented business operation (FD principles): justification for the face-to-face consulting sales model
Related
- marusan-securities · aizawa-sg · iwai-cosmo-hd · kyokuto-securities
- okasan-sg · tokai-tokyo-fh
- jsda
- financial-instruments-business-operators-japan-index
Sources
- FSA, “金融商品取引業者登録一覧”,
kinyushohin.xlsx(public Excel list). - Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA), “協会員名簿”.
- 今村証券株式会社, “会社概要” (official corporate site).