Concerns are mounting that some banks are too weak to withstand the coronavirus-fueled recession and may eventually need to be rescued or delisted.

For the country’s commercial banks, the BOJ’s sub-zero rates strategy aimed at stimulating the economy and prices has eroded their profit margins.

The bank is in talks with corporate clients to provide financing via subordinated loans and purchases of preferred shares totaling more than ¥100 billion.

Transactions here and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific will pick up before the U.S. and Europe do, experts say.

Coronavirus crisis expected to cause bad loans to climb and investment income to evaporate

Japan's effort to nudge its more than 100 struggling regional lenders into the digital age is floundering. More than a year after rules to spur open banking were issued, small lenders are stuck in a back-and-forth with startups over fees for access to client account ...

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. named Hironori Kamezawa as chief executive officer on Friday, turning to a math expert to help Japan's biggest bank forge a path in the digital era. Kamezawa, 58, will take the top post on April 1, the Tokyo-based bank said ...

Masayoshi Son's bankers are taking a hard look at their most important client. After the costly rescue of office-sharing startup WeWork and a series of other high-profile setbacks for Son, senior executives at two of Japan's biggest banking groups have said privately they've grown less ...

Yoshitaka Kitao wants to build a financial empire in an area shunned by investors: the downtrodden ranks of Japan's regional banks. The chief executive officer of SBI Holdings Inc. says he has close to $1 billion to plow into any of the 104 local lenders ...