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Yutaka Ito
Commissioner
Japan Financial Services Agency
Yutaka Ito has served as Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan since July 2025.
Mr. Ito joined the Ministry of Finance (MOF) of Japan in 1989 and has since built extensive experience in financial supervision and financial markets. During the 1990s, amid Japan’s financial crisis, he spent many years working in leading roles in financial supervision at the Supervision Bureau of the Financial Supervisory Agency, the predecessor of the FSA, and at the MOF’s Banking Bureau.
From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Ito was seconded to Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), where he served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) at TOKYO AIM, now TOKYO PRO Market. TOKYO AIM was established as a joint venture between TSE and the London Stock Exchange to provide a market for professional investors. Earlier in his career, from 2003 to 2005, he worked at the Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan.
Mr. Ito’s career at the MOF has also included tax policy and budget examination. From 2011 to 2013, he served as Director of the Corporation Tax Policy Division, followed by his appointment as Director of the Consumption Tax Policy Division from 2013 to 2015.
Mr. Ito returned to the FSA in 2019 as Deputy Director-General of the Supervision Bureau, a position he held until 2021. In this role, he was responsible for supervising Japan’s major banks and insurance companies. From 2021 to 2022, he served as Deputy Commissioner for Policy Coordination. He then served as Director-General of the Supervision Bureau of the FSA from 2022 to 2025, before becoming Commissioner of the FSA in July 2025.
Mr. Ito earned a B.A. in Law from the University of Tokyo in 1989 and a Master of Public Administration from Cornell University in 1993.
