Tag: banking

Japanese Resona Bank has announced it is backing out of SBI Ripple Asia app Money Tap. It started cooperation with Ripple last October, and the app will be available to the bank’s clients until ... ( read original story ...)

G20 finance leaders will debate topics Japan proposed, including global imbalances and steps to deal with demographic challenges, on Friday. They will not issue a communique after the meeting, the ... ( read original story ...)

Resona, one of the three Japanese banks working with SBI Holdings and Ripple on their cash transfer app Money Tap, is pulling out of the project. The bank – Japan’s fifth largest – announced ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Bank of America Merrill Lynch appointed Joseph Fayyad and Tamao Sasada as country executives of Australia and Japan, respectively, an internal memo seen by Reuters said. Sasada ... ( read original story ...)

The nation's consumer inflation is also expected to remain tepid in March, the poll also showed, leaving the Bank of Japan under pressure to meet its elusive 2 percent target. Exports are forecast to ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Apple Inc supplier Japan Display said on Friday it has signed a long-awaited deal under which it will receive a 232 billion yen ($2.1 billion) bailout that will give a ... ( read original story ...)

Yet Japan is suffering a severe labor shortage ... sharply underperforming the Nikkei Stock Average. But Seven-Eleven franchisees' contracts have given them little room to adjust to business ... ( read original story ...)

Topix falls 0.1 pct; NT ratio at second all-time high * Investors wary of buying ahead of earnings season, 10-day break By Tomo Uetake TOKYO, April 12 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average ... ( read original story ...)

revealing Japan's Softbank Group as its largest shareholder. According to U.S. media reports, public valuation could go as high as $100 billion, which would make it the biggest American IPO of the ... ( read original story ...)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Thursday he has called on his Group of 20 counterparts to strengthen global coordination to address potential risks to the world ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is chair of this year’s G20 meeting. Aso made the comments after a G20 finance leaders’ working dinner, held on the sidelines of International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings. The G20 ... ( read original story ...)

BERLIN, April 10 (Reuters) - The British Ministry of Defence is in close touch with U.S. officials and monitoring the situation after Japan grounded its F-35A fighter jets following the crash of a ... ( read original story ...)

Visiting Japan, a neighbor with which China has a complicated ... Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer and editorial writer at Nikkei. He has spent seven years in China as a ... ( read original story ...)

Bank of America Corp. named Tamao Sasada as country executive for Japan, replacing Jiro Seguchi following his appointment as co-president for Asia-Pacific in January, according to an internal memo. ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - The wife of ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn arrived at Tokyo District Court, Kyodo News reported on Thursday, where she is expected to be questioned by prosecutors. Carole Ghosn ... ( read original story ...)

A Reuters survey showed some of Japan's biggest banks, led by Norinchukin Bank , have nearly doubled their investment in collateralised loan obligations (CLOs) in the nine months to December. While ... ( read original story ...)