Category: FINANCE

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (MUFG) said it has picked Amsterdam as its European Union investment banking base, as financial institutions prepare for Britain’s exit from the EU. Japan’s largest lender is following the ... ( read original story ...)

... UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Japan’s largest financial group, to facilitate the trip to several ageing-related businesses. The project also gained support from the Thai Trade Centre in Osaka and the Osaka Prefectural Government. Pornsanong Tuchinda ... ( read original story ...)

12, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Skkynet Cloud Systems, Inc. (“Skkynet” or “the Company”) (OTCQB: SKKY), a global leader in real-time cloud information systems, is pleased to announce OSP 2017―OPC UA Sandpit―will be held in Osaka, Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Specifically, the company has a meaningful presence in the Asia Pacific region, operating a network of data centers situated in Singapore, Hong Kong, Osaka, Melbourne and ... to be immediately accretive to financial metrics. (Read more: Digital Realty ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he wants the country’s central bank to focus on monetary policies geared at achieving its 2 percent inflation target, regardless of who becomes the next Bank of Japan governor, the Nikkei newspaper ... ( read original story ...)

LIMA (Reuters) - Organisers for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Tuesday rejected allegations by 47 non-governmental organisations that they had used companies with suspect logging track records, saying all material purchased was strictly regulated. In an open ... ( read original story ...)

Last year state-owned Kyushu Railway made its trading debut after raising some 416 billion yen in an IPO. Tokyo sold shares in the struggling regional railway, better known as JR Kyushu, in hopes of attracting big-saving Japanese households as part of ... ( read original story ...)

09/10 #Thailand For Thailand's retail giant Central Group, it is no longer all in t.. 09/10 #Thailand For Thailand's retail giant Central Group, it is no longer all in t.. 09/08 US CLOSE Dow +13.01 (+0.06%) Nasdaq -37.68(-0.59%) S&P -0.15% FTSE -0.26%. ( read original story ...)

NISHIKATA, Japan (Reuters) - As the annual rice harvest begins this month in the Japanese town of Nishikata, the combines that usually putter along the sleepy roads lining its rice fields are giving way to a vehicle residents have never before seen ... ( read original story ...)

Japan backed a U.S. push for the United Nations Security Council to vote Monday on fresh sanctions against North Korea, saying that Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program poses the most serious threat since World War II. Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera on ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s GDP growth in the second quarter was a lot lower than initially estimated. Per government data released Sep 8, 2017, Japan’s economy grew an annualized 2.5% in the quarter compared with preliminary estimates of a 4% expansion. Although the ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA--Prosecutors have obtained a recording of a Finance Ministry official telling a school operator about efforts to reduce the sales price of state-owned land “closer to zero” as requested, sources said. The former director of the school operator ... ( read original story ...)

The team will next launch a full-fledged investigation into a breach of trust case over the sale of government-owned land in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. The sale was by the Finance Ministry’s Kinki Local Finance Bureau to Moritomo Gakuen, for the site of ... ( read original story ...)

The selling price will be decided between September 25 and 27, the finance ministry said. Some 1.43 trillion yen was raised in an IPO nearly two years ago that included shares in Japan Post's banking and insurance units. It was the country's biggest ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo said it would sell up to 990 million shares in Japan Post, or about 22 percent of its outstanding shares, the finance ministry said in a statement. The sale could raise 1.3 trillion yen based on Monday's closing price of 1,321 yen. The sale price ... ( read original story ...)

The Ministry of Finance will sell 990.1 million shares in Japan Post, including an overallotment, it said in a statement on Monday. That amounts to 1.3 trillion yen, based on the most recent closing price. The public offering will be priced as soon as Sept. ( read original story ...)