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BANKS

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 13, 2023
After Silicon Valley Bank failure, U.S. acts to shore up confidence in banking system
The move will not lead to losses by American taxpayers and all depositors, including those whose funds exceed the maximum government-insured level, will be made whole.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 11, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank is largest failure since financial crisis, leaving billions stranded
Some 89% of the bank's $175 billion in deposits were uninsured as the end of 2022, according to the FDIC, and their fate remains to be determined.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Mar 6, 2023
Bank of the Ryukyus taking steps to promote women in management
The bank has seen a significant rise in the number of female employees at all ranks.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2023
Kuroda’s decade at the BOJ changed how Japan’s banks make money
Investors prepare for an eventual normalization of monetary policy with BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, who introduced negative interest rates, set to hand over the reins.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2023
Japanese banking giants bump up graduate starting salaries in talent war
Wage hikes by Japanese companies are in the spotlight this year, as the possible exit of the central bank’s ultraeasy monetary policy hinges largely on sustained salary growth.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 15, 2023
Washington pushes for harsher action against banks with Russia ties
The West blocked several Russian banks' access to the international SWIFT payments system soon after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February last year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2023
China’s savings conundrum
Forced to stay at home by stringent 'zero-COVID' lockdowns, Chinese stashed $3.9 trillion in bank deposits last year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 10, 2023
SMBC to end corporate finance for coal mining by 2040, but trade finance remains
Critics have previously pointed to the ambiguity on corporate financing, potentially providing a loophole for banks lending to pure-play coal miners.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Feb 3, 2023
Markets to central bankers: We don't believe you
Investors said that whatever central banks pledged now mattered less for markets already driven by a belief that inflation has peaked.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 2, 2023
Japan agricultural bank Nochu readies global return after U.K. selloff
The agricultural bank was once one of the biggest buyers of collateralized loan obligations in the world, and is looking at resuming purchases in the coming months.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jan 30, 2023
The 2% target: Central banks' inflation touchstone faces post-pandemic reckoning
By announcing an inflation goal, central bankers feel they build credibility for themselves and focus the planning of households and firms in ways that help keep inflation controlled.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 30, 2023
The mouse that roared: New Zealand and the world's 2% inflation target
Since it's arrival in 1990, the 2% inflation target phenomenon has sailed from Wellington around the globe to become the accepted norm among central banks, large and small.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 28, 2023
Global central banks preaching on pay are enforcing squeeze, too
Central bankers trying to ensure that surging consumer prices don’t feed yet more inflation are doing what they can to keep their own houses in order.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 26, 2023
MUFG markets chief says BOJ may ditch ultraeasy policy by September
Such a move would depend on stable price increases and wage growth, as well as the health of the U.S. and European economies, Hiroyuki Seki said.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2023
Japan weighs linking benefits recipients' bank info with My Number
Under a proposed law revision, authorities will ask people whose account info is already known to public bodies for benefit payments whether they want to link the two.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 17, 2023
Japan pushes global counterparts to regulate cryptocurrencies like banks
FTX's bankruptcy and fraud charges against Sam Bankman-Fried have battered the crypto sector, highlighting gaps and differences in global digital-asset regulation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 12, 2023
Crypto exchange Coinbase to close most of Japan operations
The shift comes as the firm cuts 20% of its workforce globally.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 9, 2023
Goldman to cut about 3,200 jobs this week after cost review
The firm is expected to start the process midweek and the total number of people affected will not exceed 3,200.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 5, 2023
BOJ's policy tweak hasn't led to lending windfall, Mizuho head says
Comments from the president and CEO of Mizuho Financial Group highlight the challenges Japanese banks still face.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2023
It’s now clear that quantitative easing was a colossal policy mistake
There's no convincing evidence that central banks' purchases of trillions of dollars of bonds and other financial assets helped any economy.
Naked man’s rampage in Saitama linked to one fatality and 10 injured
Police believe Daisuke Nishimura may have been involved in roughly 20 incidents in the 90 minutes leading up to his arrest, including a fatal hit-and-run and multiple assaults.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Japan brings forward deadline for electronic travel authorization system
Japan is planning to implement by March 2029 a new online screening system in which foreign visitors who don’t need a visa apply for a certification before entering the country.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Tokyo prices rise most in two years, backing central bank's hike path
Consumer prices excluding fresh food in Tokyo gained 3.4% in April from a year earlier, as a mixture of impacts from last year’s school fee cuts and higher food and energy costs accelerated inflation, according to the internal affairs ministry.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

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