TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has proposed basing benchmark interest rates on actual trades as part of global efforts to improve the transparency of this process following a series of rate-fixing scandals.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's banking industry group said on Friday it will tighten monitoring of how its interbank lending rates are set, responding to growing public distrust in benchmark rates around ...

Bank of Japan policymaker Kazuyuki Masu has offered his view that "the environment has already been prepared" for an additional interest rate hike by the BOJ in light of the economic and price ...