Mizuho Financial Group Inc. and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. are discussing integrating their asset management banking businesses, sources said Wednesday.
The integration across their traditional keiretsu groupings is aimed at boosting the scale of the business to curb costs and implement streamlining at a time when the Bank of Japan’s negative interest rate policy has put pressure on profits.
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