Tokyo Stock Exchange President Taizo Nishimuro said Friday the bourse hopes to publicly list its own shares in fiscal 2009 in the face of intensifying competition among exchanges around the world.
It was the first time the head of Asia's largest equities market gave a date for listing its shares since the TSE was forced by a string of computer problems to abandon an earlier plan to go public by the end of March.
Nishimuro made the remarks after attending an advisory panel meeting earlier in the day on stock market reform at the Financial Services Agency. The panel is headed by economic and fiscal policy chief Kaoru Yosano.