Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. will advance the schedule for forming a tieup with UFJ Holdings Inc. in sales of financial products to individual customers and in overseas operations, Mitsubishi Tokyo President Nobuo Kuroyanagi said Monday.
MTFG, scheduled to merge with struggling UFJ in October 2005, wants to accelerate the planned management integration by achieving tieups in as many business fields as possible by the end of the year, with a view to maximizing the benefits of the merger, MTFG officials said.
"We want to bring forward the schedule for tying up as much as possible in sales of investment trust and insurance products as well as in overseas business," Kuroyanagi said in an interview.