Japanese Regional Banks: An Old Chestnut Reappears
A curious thing happened on Friday. The Japanese Topix Index fell almost 1%, reflecting overnight weakness on Wall Street, but the banking sector...
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Bank of Kochi (8416 JP): Harbinger
An obscure little secondary regional bank from Shikoku with notably low performance ratios, Bank Of Kochi (8416 JP) should be on nobody’s ‘must...
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First Bank of Toyama (7184 JP): Never Say Never (Again)
Next in line to confess their sins after Michinoku Bank (8350 JP) (see our Insight Michinoku Bank (8350 JP): Clipped by a Synthetic Hedge ) and...
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Tochigi Bank (8550JP): Red Flags but No White Flags (Yet)
If one were looking for evidence of the inherent dangers of risk concentration in the banking industry, one need only look to tiny secondary...
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Japanese Banks: These Lifeless Things (The Ozymandias Syndrome)
Japanese bank stocks performed so poorly in 2018, with the Topix Bank Index falling 25.7% while the overall market declined by a lesser 16.4%, that...
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