Sustainability Data

Employees

Employee profile

December 31,
2021
December 31,
2022
December 31,
2023
Number of employees 147 168 212
Full time employees 114 134 170
Non-full time employees1 33 34 42
% of female full time employees 26.3% 24.6% 24.1%
% of female managers 17.9% 15.0% 10.3%
Average tenure (full time
employees)
2.7 2.9 2.6
Male 2.8 2.9 2.5
Female 2.6 3.1 2.9
Average age (full time
employees)
38.3 39.8 39.8
Male 39.1 40.6 40.6
Female 36.7 37.5 37.2
Engineer & designer % of full
time employees
48% 49% 51%
% of female engineers 16% 15% 14%
Overtime work hours 21.9 17.8 15.3
Number of employees in
parental leave
Male 6 5 3
Female 1 N/A 3
% of return-to-work after
maternity leave
100% N/A 100%
Number of Certified Securities
Sales Representatives2
106 121 149

1 Non-full time employees include part-time and temporary employees
2 The number includes the certification holder of Inside Directors, full time, part-time and temporary employees

Training programs for employees (FY 2023)

Target Average training days / employee Average annual training hours / employee
Privacy training / Information
security training
All employees 14 2.5
AMT/CFT training All employees 2 0.5
Insider trading training All employees 5 0.6
Management training All managers and above 2 7.0

Programs/Events for employees (FY 2023)

Program/Event Target Number of
sessions
In-house learning
opportunities
Wealth management All employees 22
Finance New employees 12
Finance study sessions to
support customers1
Employees in need 11
Lightning Talks2 Engineers &
designers
13
All employees 2
In-house events Weekly Get-Together3 All employees once a week
Survey Employee engagement survey All employees twice a year

1 Study sessions to improve financial literacy to support our customers
2 Study sessions to share tech trends and tips in a very short period of time and debriefing sessions
3 Events for the purpose of improve communication among employees

Governance

Board of Directors / Audit & Supervisory Committee

Name Indepe
ndent/
Outside
Director
since
Tenure1 Gender Attendance2 Attendance3 Attendance
FY2021 FY2022 FY2023
Board
Meetings
Audit &
Supervisory
Board
Board
Meetings
Audit &
Supervisory
Board
Audit &
Supervisory
Committee
Board
Meetings
Audit &
Supervisory
Board
Founder and
CEO
Kazuhisa
Shibayama
April 2015 9 years Male 100% - 100% - - 100% -
Director,
CFO
Gaku
Hirose
April 2020 4 years Male 100% - 100% - - 100% -
Director,
COO
Takuya
Ota
March 2024 0 year Male - - - - - - -
Director Sumito
Togo
April 2020 4 years Male 100% - 100% - - 100% -
Director Maki
Ogawa
March 2021 3 year Female 100%4 - 100% - - 100% -
Director Hideto
Ito
Outside March 2024 0 year Male - - - - - - -
Director
(Audit &
Supervisory
Committee
Member)
Akira
Enomoto
March 2022
(May 2018)5
2 year
(5 years)6
Male 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
Director
(Audit &
Supervisory
Committee
Member)
Eriko
Matsuno
March 2022
(October 2015)5
2 year
(8 years)6
Female 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
Director
(Audit &
Supervisory
Committee
Member)
Sachihiko
Fujimoto
March 2022
(December 2018)5
2 year
(5 years)6
Male 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
% female
Directors
22.2%
14 meetings 15 meetings 14 meetings 4 meetings 12 meetings 16 meetings 17 meetings

1: Tenure is as of March 2024
2: The data is as "a company with an Audit & Supervisory Board." The Company shifted to "a company with an Audit & Supervisory Committee" with an approval at the Annual General Meeting in March 2022
3: The data is as "a company with an Audit & Supervisory Board" before March 2022 and as "a company with an Audit & Supervisory Committee" afterwards
4: The attendance of Maki is between March and December 2021, as she was appointed as a Director in March 2021
5: Parentheses indicate the date when the Director was appointed as a statutory auditor
6: The number in the parentheses indicates the total number of years served as a statutory auditor and as a Director

Others

Initiatives to improve financial literacy

FY2023
Number of seminars/webinars 179
Number of participants in
seminars/webinars
71,042

Greenhouse gas emissions

FY2021 FY20221 FY2023
Total GHG emissions
(Scope1+2)(kg-CO2)
63,435 90,535 87,108
Scope1 (kg-CO2) - - -
Scope2 (kg-CO2) 63,435 90,535 87,108
Electricity consumption(kwh) 100,850 156,094 191,026
GHG emissions per operating revenue2 13.65 13.77 10.67

1: Doubled the office floor space in April 2022
2: Calculated by deviding total GHG emissions by operating revenue
Note: CO2 emisssion factors are as follows:
- FY2021: 0.629kg-CO2/kwh
- FY2022: 0.580kg-CO2/kwh
- FY2023: 0.456kg-CO2/kwh