Nomura Securities Co. said Wednesday that it will close 25 outlets in urban areas as part of its branch consolidation plan announced in April. Operations at the 25 branches, located in the Kanto, Chukyo and Kansai regions, will be taken over by respective nearby outlets ...
Olympus begins consolidating U.S. medical device output at new site
The U.S. medical technology unit of Olympus Corp. has started consolidating its production from five separate facilities to a new, larger site in a suburb of Minneapolis. The company on Tuesday transferred the first five of 23 production lines to the Brooklyn Park facility with ...
Regional banks face growing pressure to merge
Regulators are increasing the pressure on regional banks to consolidate, worried that shrinking populations outside Japan's major cities will leave lenders too weak to stand on their own. After direct prodding from the head of the Financial Services Agency for the more than 100 regional ...
