Tag: banking

Japanese multinational holding conglomerate SoftBank led a $440-million investment round in British digital lender OakNorth Bank, a firm in which Indiabulls Housing Finance is a controlling shareholde... ( read original story ...)

Overall bank lending in Japan was up 2.4 percent on year in January, the Bank of Japan said on Friday - coming in at 535.350 trillion yen and roughly unchanged from December. Excluding trusts, bank le... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo pushed hard in the opposite direction with the Topix dropping 1.1 per cent as the key industrials and financial segments dropped 1.2 per cent and 1.3 per cent, respectively. The only sector not ... ( read original story ...)

The performance of Japan’s biggest shares is falling further behind its U.S. counterparts and its once-vaunted manufacturing sector may be to blame. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average is now trading at a si... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japanese multinationals heavily invested in China are suffering a sharper earnings contraction than listed companies overall, their latest earnings reports show. Japanese companies have ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japanese multinationals heavily invested in China are suffering a sharper earnings contraction than listed companies overall, their latest earnings reports show. Japanese companies have ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- About 60% of major municipalities lack comprehensive support offices to help foreign residents adjust to life in Japan, a Nikkei survey has found, even as a new visa program is set to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's service sector growth improved in January, supported by domestic demands for new businesses. The Nikkei Japan Services Purchasing Manager's Index, or PMI, increased to 51.6 in ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo | Long before the United States and Europe embraced radical monetary policies last decade during the global financial crisis, there was the Bank of Japan. Twenty years ago this month - back when ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's Aozora Bank will partner with a Chinese financial technology unicorn to develop online loan services in Southeast Asia. Beijing Zhongguancun Kejin Technology, also known as ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei edged up on Wednesday with markets barely reacting to U.S. President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, while attention remained on corporate earnings. ... ( read original story ...)

Long before the U.S. and Europe embraced radical monetary policies last decade during the global financial crisis there was the Bank of Japan. Twenty years ago this month — back when the American econ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 6 ... This comes with a massive service outage that reached millions of customers prior to its IPO in December” Added William Thomson, Senior Vice President at Yokoh... ( read original story ...)

Japan, famous for its yield-hungry "Mrs. Watanabe ... who heads Rakuten's blockchain technology department, told the Nikkei Asian Review at a blockchain conference on Jan. 31. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei edged up on Wednesday but gains were limited as the market focused on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address while Estée Lauder’s strong results li... ( read original story ...)

Japanese law requires the target of a tender offer to provide an opinion within 10 business days of the initial announcement. Itochu unveiled a 20 billion yen ($182 million) tender offer Thursday ... ( read original story ...)