Fukuoka Financial Group (8354 JP): Southern Comfort
It has taken some 30 months of waiting, two postponements, the threat of a ‘cease and desist order’ (which would have been the first such order...
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Eighteenth Bank (8396 JP): 18th Nervous Breakdown
If a Japanese regional bank were independent, profitable, and had the leading market share for loans and deposits in its home prefecture, why would...
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Concordia FG (7186.JP): An Embarrassment of Riches
Most foreign institutional investors will likely be unfamiliar with the name Higashi-Nippon Bank (HNPB), a small Tokyo-based secondary regional...
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FTC Decision Redraws the Battle Lines in Kyushu
The formal decision by Japan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) not to approve the merger of Eighteenth Bank Ltd/The (8396 JP) with Fukuoka Financial...
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Oversold Financial Sector Moving on Volume in Japan....
We were looking for oversold names that are bouncing on volume and found that the majority of names that met the criteria were in the Financial...
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