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The Bank of Yokohama and Chiba Bank, two top regional lenders, said they have agreed to a business tie-up in a move that could trigger further realignment in the industry.

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 ...

President Donald Trump wrapped up the weekend as he started it, jawboning the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates at a time when he may be sizing up his two latest picks for Fed governor as successors to Chairman Jerome Powell. If the Fed "knew ...

MUFG Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. have announced they will make ATMs outside their branches available to each other's customers from Sept. 22. Customers of each bank will be able to withdraw cash from either kind of ATM for free during the daytime on ...

Bank of Japan Deputy Gov. Masayoshi Amamiya on Friday said the central bank is ready to ramp up stimulus and will consider all policy options, including deepening negative interest rates, if the loss of economic momentum hurts its efforts to boost inflation. Amamiya said the ...

MUFG Bank is expected to become the first Japanese bank to be designated as a yuan clearing bank, sources said Wednesday. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping are likely to reach an agreement on MUFG's designation when they meet in the ...

Three large Chinese banks could lose their access to the U.S. financial system, after a judge found them in contempt for refusing to comply with subpoenas in a probe into the violation of North Korean sanctions, The Washington Post reported Monday. The three banks were ...

Sharp Corp. said Tuesday it has returned to "normal mode" after completing the purchase of all preferred shares it issued to financial institutions during its crisis four years ago. "We would like to report to all of you that our management has finally returned to ...

Japan Post Bank Co. plans to set a limit on over-the-counter international cash transfers of ¥5 million ($46,000) to combat money laundering, sources close to the matter said Tuesday. Japan Post Bank with around 120 million account holders, the most among domestic banks, currently has ...

Japan Post Bank Co. plans to set a limit on over-the-counter international cash transfers of ¥5 million ($46,000) to combat money laundering, sources close to the matter said Tuesday. Japan Post Bank, with around 120 million account holders, the most among domestic banks, currently has ...