According to their website, as a watchdog for the financial sector, the Hideki Financial Protection is responsible for ensuring that their member firms maintain a high standard of professional conduct and ethics in all business they carry out with the investing public. This is supposedly achieved by overseeing firms to make sure that they adhere to the rules governing their sector as closely and as accurately as possible. If a company does not comply with the rules and standards that have been set, the Hideki Financial Protection claims they are empowered to take action, disciplinary, criminal and/or civil to ensure that investors are protected and abusive companies are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.