For Yuki Hagiwara's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
One of Japan's biggest regional banks is resuming an expansion overseas, 20 years after the country's financial crisis forced it to retreat. Concordia Financial Group Ltd. plans to expand in Asia to offer cash management services to its Japanese corporate clients and infrastructure loans to ...
The nation's regional banks have long been relegated to the sidelines in one of the most lucrative corners of the lending market while regular loans got gradually less profitable. Now some are fighting back. Shizuoka Bank Ltd. has lined up a network of 40 local lenders ...
It's time to stop drinking with the boss after work. That's the message of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. banking unit executive Saiko Nanri, who wants to change Japan's long-standing culture of drinks between managers and employees. Companies have long encouraged such parties to give workers ...
The new head of the nation's main banking lobby is warning the Bank of Japan against deepening negative interest rates, signaling that such a move could spur risky investment and put further pressure on lenders' profits. "It will be a quite difficult option to take," ...
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. announced another round of losses Wednesday on its foreign-bond holdings as part of a surprise writedown that will severely curtail full-year profit, as Japanese banks' quest to secure yield by investing overseas continues to create turbulence. Mizuho slashed its net income ...
The unit acquired from Germany’s second-largest bank will be one of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s biggest acquisitions since it was created in 2005.
How could one of the world's most visible employees go about hiding billions of yen worth of salary and benefits paid to him by one of the world's biggest companies, without the company knowing it? Two weeks after Tokyo prosecutors arrested Carlos Ghosn for allegedly ...
The country's growing ranks of dementia sufferers are sitting on a mountain of frozen assets, creating personal dilemmas for loved ones fretting over how to handle that money and a drag on the nation's economic prospects as the vast pool of wealth lays idle. The ...
One of Japan's biggest banks is throwing away the cookie cutter when it comes to hiring fresh graduates. Realizing it was recruiting "exactly the same" types of people each year, Mizuho Financial Group Inc. now wants to hire more creative thinkers who can help it ...
Mizuho Financial Group Inc.'s trust banking arm has its sights set on exactly where the wealth is in Japan: the $11 trillion held by the nation's elderly. The company has begun selling a type of trust that gives rich retirees more options for managing their ...
