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Jordan Rochester, known as "Mr. Brexit," has left Mizuho Bank after serving as head of fixed income strategy in London for nearly two years to pursue a position in Dubai.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 30, 2026
¡®Mr. Brexit¡¯ financial commentator leaves Mizuho for position in Dubai
Jordan Rochester joined Mizuho in 2024 as part of the bank¡¯s push to expand its currency and rates business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Carsten Stoehr, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking's Asia-Pacific deputy head, has been leading more complex financing deals to increase profitability at the bank.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 21, 2026
Credit Suisse veteran shakes up SMBC in new era for Japan banks
Â鶹´«Ã½ second-largest lender is branching out into new products and moving toward riskier, higher-yielding structured credit deals.
Mizuho Financial Group is seeking an equity capital market license and plans to bolster its stock underwriting team in Seoul to capitalize on South Korea¡¯s booming semiconductor market, said Joris Dierckx, head of banking for Asia-Pacific.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 10, 2026
Mizuho targets South Korea and India hires to join top dealmaking ranks
The bank aims to become Asia¡¯s top investment bank in as soon as five years, mainly by strengthening its equity underwriting and M&A advisory operations.
Mizuho Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group propelled foreign-currency bond sales by Japanese companies to a record.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 30, 2026
Mizuho and SMFG fuel record Japanese corporate bond sales overseas
The surge in issuance in overseas currencies is in part being fueled by the depreciating yen, which slid to its weakest level against the dollar since 1986 this week.
Nissan shareholders voted against the reappointment of outside director Motoo Nagai, while approving 11 other board nominees at the company¡¯s annual meeting.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 23, 2026
Nissan shareholders vote out influential director at meeting
Motoo Nagai¡¯s ouster represents Renault¡¯s biggest power move at Nissan since ceding much of its influence over the Japanese carmaker in 2023.
Nissan's plant in Kaminokawa, Tochigi Prefecture. Renault, which owns roughly 36% of Nissan but can only exercise 15% of voting rights, plans to abstain from voting for the reappointment of Motoo Nagai, an influential outside director, as the firm is concerned about his independence.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 22, 2026
Renault pushback on Nissan board picks targets creditor Mizuho
Renault, which owns roughly 36% of Nissan, plans to abstain from voting for two board members who have ties to Mizuho Financial Group, Nissan¡¯s biggest creditor.
With Anthropic's Claude Mythos, financial institutions will be able to rapidly detect vulnerabilities in their systems and fix them.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 3, 2026
Japanese government and banks granted access to Claude Mythos
The access could help the government and the nation¡¯s megabanks shore up any cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has priced a ?300 billion ($1.9 billion) dual-tranche Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bond deal, adding to a growing pipeline that underwriters estimate could push Japanese bank issuance of the special bond to a record high this year.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 29, 2026
Japanese banks see hybrid bond boom to fund regulatory capital
The issuance of Additional Tier 1 bonds, which are considered among the riskiest forms of bank debt, could rise to a record high in Japan this year.
Mizuho Financial Group¡¯s CEO Masahiro Kihara said on Wednesday that he expects the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates in June or July, though any modest hike is unlikely to have a major market impact.
BUSINESS
May 27, 2026
Mizuho CEO floats idea of first outsized BOJ hike since 1990
Masahiro Kihara says whether the BOJ raises rates in June or July is unlikely to have a big impact on the market unless the increase is large.
Mizuho Bank will have its 14.99% equity stake in Rakuten Card swapped with Rakuten Bank shares, the parent companies of the two banks said Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 21, 2026
Mizuho Bank to acquire stake in Rakuten Bank
The two megabanks will work together in services for corporate clients, aiming to bolster their earnings from lending and fee business.
Outstanding loans across all Japanese banks increased by 5.4% year-on-year in April, while deposits grew only 1.9%, prompting major banks to work to meet clients¡¯ needs through various funding measures.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 20, 2026
Japan banks face challenge of loan growth outpacing deposits
For decades, deflation kept loan demand tepid and prompted savers to hoard cash. Now the country is seeing an explosion of borrowing, and deposits aren¡¯t keeping up.
MUFG Bank, Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking are all likely to gain access to Anthropic¡¯s artificial intelligence model, Mythos.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 14, 2026
Japan megabanks set to win Mythos access after Bessent visit
Mythos access could be granted to MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking and Mizuho Bank as early as the end of May.
Mizuho Trust & Banking President & CEO Kenichi Sasada at the group's office in Tokyo last month
BUSINESS
Apr 7, 2026
Mizuho Trust to partner with Nasdaq to attract global investors
¡°Companies need dialogue¡± with overseas investors to spur investment for growth, President and CEO Kenichi Sasada said.
Japanese banks, including Mizuho Financial Group, are trying to boost productivity by adopting artificial intelligence while trying to ease concerns that the technology will take away jobs.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 27, 2026
Mizuho plans to replace 5,000 clerical jobs with AI in 10 years
Â鶹´«Ã½ third-largest lender insists the move is ¡°not a headcount reduction.¡±
Rapidus is building a massive plant in Chitose, Hokkaido, for the manufacture of advanced semiconductors.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 27, 2026
Â鶹´«Ã½ Rapidus receives another ?267.6 billion in funding
The government now controls 11.5% of the chipmaker, and that figure reaches up to 40% if nonvoting shares are converted.
There have been a series of insider trading cases in Japan in recent years involving employees across the financial industry.
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2026
Mizuho Securities reportedly faces probe for insider trading
The revelations are the latest to potentially undermine confidence in Â鶹´«Ã½ financial industry at a time when the stock market is booming.
Japanese banks, including Mizuho Financial Group, and other foreign lenders in Asia have seen departures from their loan financing teams as loan demand softens.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 14, 2026
Senior loan bankers depart Mizuho and SMBC after Asia volumes slump
Asia¡¯s offshore loan market has been weighed down by elevated dollar interest rates, geopolitical risks and heightened competition among global lenders as deal flow dwindles.
MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank are planning to raise annual interest rates on ordinary deposits to 0.3% from the current 0.2%.
BUSINESS
Dec 20, 2025
Four major Japanese banks to hike ordinary deposit interest rates
The four banks are MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.
MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking and Mizuho Bank plan to provide loans totaling up to around ?2 trillion to Rapidus, marking the first private-sector loan to the Japanese chipmaker.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 12, 2025
Three megabanks eye loans of up to ?2 trillion to Rapidus
The injection of such funds is expected to boost the firm¡¯s planned mass production of cutting-edge chips, which requires a large amount of money.
Mizuho Financial Group has completed the integration of U.S. boutique investment bank Greenhill & Co., which it purchased two years ago, and is now reaping the benefits, CEO Masahiro Kihara said on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 11, 2025
Mizuho CEO upbeat on dealmaking prospects in Japan and U.S.
Mizuho Financial Group¡¯s CEO expressed optimism that momentum in investment banking will continue both at home and in the United States.
America¡¯s cyberforces grapple with cluster of deaths by suicide
The U.S. Cyber Command building (center) stands on the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
Yasukuni Shrine introduces ban on military attire and cosplay
People gather in front of thousands of lanterns on display at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15 during the Mitama Matsuri, one of the capital's largest summer o-Bon festivals.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
J. League enters new era as league kicks off first fall-spring campaign
Players from each J. League club pose during a kickoff event on Monday ahead of the start of the 2026-27 campaign.
Speaking Japanese at the movies with ¡®Chiikawa¡¯
A "Chiikawa The Movie" poster is seen at Toho Cinemas in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.

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