Japan Exchange Group Inc. plans to appoint board director Akira Kiyota, also president of its Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. unit, as group chief executive officer of JPX. He will succeed current Group CEO Atsushi Saito, Kiyota will assume the top JPX group post after a general meeting of JPX shareholders in June. Saito became TSE president in 2007 after serving as vice president of Nomura Securities Co.

and president of now-defunct Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan, and worked hard for the integration of TSE and OSE to help them survive intensifying international competition among stock exchanges. He became the first group CEO of JPX in January 2013.