Mizuho Financial Group will invest in Climate Impact X to help it enhance its platform and expand into the Japanese market.
November 29, 2023If approved, Mizuho will become the third Japanese firm after Nomura and Daiwa to establish a securities company in China.
November 24, 2023Mizuho Financial Group plans to merge its Amsterdam-based banking business and its Frankfurt-based securities business in 2025.
October 24, 2023A consortium of Japanese firms plans to launch the DCJPY, a digital currency backed by JPY bank deposits, by July 2024.
October 13, 2023Progmat Inc will be jointly owned by JPX and seven other companies including the major Japanese banks, and work to advance the development of the country's digital asset market.
September 13, 2023The use of "off-channel" communications was "pervasive and longstanding". Wells Fargo was penalised $200mn, while BNP Paribas and SocGen were each fined $110mn.
August 9, 2023Indonesia sold a JPY 104.8 billion blue bond with four-tranches, less than two years after establishing a framework to do so.
May 22, 2023Mizuho Capital Markets engaged in anticipatory hedges of deal-contingent FX forwards without appropriate disclosure to customers.
April 27, 2023The adoption of AI chatbots by Japan's top banks could spur other major Japanese companies to follow suit, as generative AI technology becomes increasingly popular.
April 18, 2023The plan was to make banking services available on LINE's popular smartphone app, but the project is now being abandoned.
March 31, 2023