Tokyo, February 04, 2026 – The Organization of Global Financial City Tokyo (FinCity.Tokyo) and Frankfurt Main Finance (FMF) the financial center initiative for the leading financial hub in continental Europe, signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Tokyo today. Both sides acknowledge the mutual benefits of closer cooperation between Fin.City.Tokyo and FMF and recognize the importance of empowering both financial centers in Tokyo and Frankfurt to advance economic cooperation, investment flows, and financial sector development.
The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is to establish the principles and framework for potential cooperation between FinCity.Tokyo and FMF in areas of mutual interest, with a particular focus on financial sector development and institutional cooperation.
Each of FinCity.Tokyo and FMF envisage to voluntarily work together to foster bilateral cooperation in order to:
- Cooperate on organizing joint events, including conferences, forums, roundtables, and delegations, to promote investment opportunities and financial sector development in both cities, while promoting utilization of finance to address social challenges, and enhancing the competitiveness and attractiveness of financial centers.
- Facilitate capital market development in both financial centers by sharing best practices and encouraging mutual communication, and other forms of engagement.
- Encourage cooperation in promoting financial services in areas that contribute to social goods including, but not limited to, green bonds, social bonds, transition finance, utilization of digital technology, alternative investment, infrastructure investment, etc.
- Joint implementation of financial-promotion activities and the sharing of insights for policy-advocacy efforts, capitalizing on key opportunities including but not limited to major international conferences.
Hiroshi Nakaso, Chairman of FinCity.Tokyo, said: “I would like to reiterate the significance of the Memorandum of Understanding with Frankfurt Main Finance, with whom we have been collaborating since an early stage, including an earlier joint research project on strengthening international supply chains through finance. It is a great pleasure for us to now upgrade and formalize this relationship. Through this MOU, we look forward to cooperating in the development of financial measures to address societal challenges as well as in joint financial promotion activities that we hope prove mutually beneficial. Both financial centers, Tokyo and Frankfurt, aim at supporting industries including layers of Mittelstand companies. And because we share many challenges and visions in common, the potential for collaboration is substantial.”
Oliver Behrens, President of Frankfurt Main Finance, said: “Today, as we sign this Memorandum of Understanding, we are not starting a new journey but rather accelerating a partnership that has already proven its immense value. I am confident that this Memorandum of Understanding will be regarded as the starting point for a long-lasting and fruitful era of cooperation.”
