Metaplanet executives: Japan should open up its capital markets to allow free trading of Strategy preferred shares

Odaily News Shinpei Okuno, head of capital strategy at Metaplanet, wrote on the X platform that preferred stocks are an untapped area of the capital market in Japan. Currently, there are almost no capital markets for listed preferred stocks in Japan (perhaps only Ito En, SoftBank and Infronia).
Shinpei Okuno added that the preferred stock strategy can attract a wide range of investors by providing financial products backed by Bitcoin. It would be a good thing if financial instruments such as Strategy's preferred stocks STRF/STRK/STRD could be freely traded in the Japanese capital market, because the greatest potential of companies adopting a Bitcoin reserve strategy may lie in the ability to create fixed dividend products backed by Bitcoin.