To our stakeholders

With a high responsiveness to change as our strength, we will develop and provide innovative services to meet the expectations of all our stakeholders.

PRONEXUS celebrated a significant milestone of 90 years since its founding in December 2020. This achievement is solely thanks to all our stakeholders, which of course includes the patronage of our clients, as well as the support from our shareholders, trading partners, and employees, and for that we deeply express our gratitude.

Founded in 1930 as a dedicated securities certificate printing company, we established a solid position as a leading company in securities certificate printing by the 1960s. From the 1970s to the 1980s, we ventured into the area of documentation relating to the Commercial Code (now the Companies Act) and the Securities and Exchange Act (now the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act). This marked a significant shift in our activities toward supporting corporate information disclosure in the disclosure business. It involved expansion into the investor relations (IR) and investment trust fields of business, including services to support the IPO boom occurring at that time.

During the 1990s and 2000s, we responded promptly to amendments in disclosure-related legislation and the digitization of the disclosure field, working on the development and the provision of systems to support the practical side of disclosure and database services.

In 2006, we changed our company name from Asia Securities Printing to PRONEXUS. This name change reflected our resolve that each employee will enhance the value and services they provide to a professional level (PRO), earning trust from clients and thereby building solid relationships (NEXUS). Moreover, since the 2010s, we have been proactively developing our business, including not only expanding English IR tools and web services that adapt to changes in disclosure systems, while strengthening such service platforms, but also offering BPO services, services supporting companies develop their business overseas and augmenting our database business to best meet our clients’ needs, as well as services specifically for M&A. In addition, our BPO business aimed at Japanese companies overseas has been progressing steadily, having established a local subsidiary in Taiwan in 2014, and another in Vietnam in 2019. Currently, we are engaged in transactions with nearly 4,000 clients, including listed companies, IPO-oriented firms, investment trust management companies, J-REITs, financial institutions, and universities.

Thus from our founding to the present day, we have anticipated changes in the times. Centering our efforts in the disclosure field, we have developed and provided services and products that did not exist anywhere before, creating new business areas, and establishing a unique business model unparalleled globally. However, looking forward, we must accurately address the ongoing digitization and paperless transition of the disclosure and IR fields, a shift which is expected to only accelerate, and rebuild our business models to adapt to the drastically altered lifestyles and business environments following the spread of COVID-19.

Recognizing the importance of transforming the way we handle business processes and communications with our clients in light of the rapid advancement in digitization and paperless systems, we are expanding our strategic investments to facilitate this transformation. While accelerating investment to develop the systems that we offer our clients such as those supporting the practical side of disclosure and enabling information sharing, we are expanding the digital infrastructure and corresponding facilities of our telework-compatible internal operations and making key investments in acquiring talent in growth areas.

In today’s climate, amid calls to reconstruct social and economic systems to make them compatible with global business, we are anticipating the business environment affecting PRONEXUS to dramatically shift. Utilizing our high responsiveness to change, which has been part of our DNA since our founding, along with our strengths in system development and consulting capabilities, we will continue to advance the development of innovative products and services going forward. Striving to be a company that is indispensable to society and respected by all stakeholders, we remain committed to providing new value that ensures our clients’ satisfaction and their ability to use our services with confidence.

Takeshi UenoPresident and Representative Director