Bank of Japan Deputy Gov. Hirohide Yamaguchi urged the nation’s banks Wednesday to accelerate efforts to strengthen their capital base to make them less vulnerable to economic crises.
“It is important for (Japanese financial institutions) to willfully accelerate efforts to strengthen their capital base,” not just to brace for tougher global capital standards, Yamaguchi said in a Tokyo speech.
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