Staff writer
With today's deregulation of commission rates for securities transactions, the nation's brokerage industry is facing a new level of competition the likes of which it has never witnessed before.
The deregulation measure, part of Japan's "Big Bang" reforms, will affect transactions less than 50 million yen. Fees for larger transactions were deregulated in April 1998.
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