According to the wealth manager, Kazuhara will be spearheading the entire business team to tap developing growth opportunities and customer relationships for CME Group across Japan.
CME Group managing director, Asia Pacific head Julien Le Noble said Kazuhara’s joins the company’s team in Asia, bringing with him unparalleled experience and insight to our growing presence in the Japanese market.
"We will continue to work with Japan’s financial community to leverage our global risk management benchmark products and help our clients achieve their risk management goals in the country, as well as develop new benchmark products and services needed in the region," Noble said.
Kazuhara has septh experience in the exchanges sector and derivatives industry, as he has served both NYSE Euronext and EUREX.
CME Group’s exchanges provides a wide array of products for customers interacting with Japanese markets, such as full-sized Nikkei 225 equity indexes denominated in both US dollar and Japanese yen.
It also offers Euroyen TIBOR interest rate futures; USD/JPY currency futures in full-sized, E-mini and E-micro formats as well as yen currency pairs against the euro, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, and Swiss franc; and weather index products for Tokyo, Osaka and Hiroshima.
