Japan Banks â Unloved for Many Reasons
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) offers negative interest rates on monies deposited. Japanâs banks are largely wholesale, with lumpy corporate loans and in...
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Japanese Banks:Â Beyond the Ides of March
âBeware the Ides of Marchâ: the soothsayerâs repeated warning to ancient Romeâs most famous emperor in William Shakespeareâs play âJulius Caesarâ. ...
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Mizuho Financial Group (8411 JP): Writing Off the Past
Mizuho Financial Group (8411 JP) (MHFG) has slashed its forecast for FY3/2019 consolidated net profits from „570 billion to just „80 billion,...
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Mizuho Financial Group (8411 JP):Â Under Pressure
Results for the nine months to end-December 2018, reported on 31 January 2019 by Mizuho Financial Group (8411 JP), or MHFG for short, reveal the...
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SMFG (8316 JP): On Target But Drifting Off Radar
Consolidated results for the nine months to end-December 2018, announced by SMFG (8306 JP) on 31 January 2019, represented 91% of managementâs...
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