Tag: banking

TOKYO, April 13 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average rose on Friday morning as suggestions from U.S. President Donald Trump that a military strike on Syria may not be imminent supported investor sentiment and higher U.S. bond yields helped financial ... ( read original story ...)

In the latest attempt by Japanese state bodies to change the way the country’s companies behave, the Bank of Japan has decided to put money in an index of firms selected because of the way they treat women. The BOJ has added the MSCI Japan Empowering ... ( read original story ...)

In the coming months, Japan is set to reach another important milestone in its path toward improving the business environment with the first set of revisions to the 2015 Corporate Governance Code. The changes -- which focus on unwinding cross shareholdings ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan mostly held an optimistic view on regional economies, in a sign of its conviction over a broadening recovery but warned that labor shortages and a U.S.-China trade war could cloud the outlook. The central bank’s ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, April 12 (Reuters) - Japanese stocks pulled back on Thursday as worries about possible U.S. military action against Syria curbed investor risk appetite, while earnings reports kept the retail sector in the spot light. The Nikkei share average ended ... ( read original story ...)

The central banks of Japan and Hong Kong are interconnecting their systems to support faster cross-border payments and trade between the two markets, according to Reuters reports on Tuesday (April 10). The Bank of Japan announced the plans that reports ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo (Japan) (AFP) - Nearly half of Tokyo's residents can't name a single Paralympian and international sporting officials are worried about the city's readiness to accommodate athletes. As the 2020 Games approaches, the Japanese capital has work to do ... ( read original story ...)

LONDON (Reuters) - The Japanese Bankers Association (JBA) and the China Banking Association (CBA) have joined forces to challenge proposed European Union regulations aimed at policing possible market risk posed by foreign lenders doing business in the bloc. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- In a bid to increase the number of foreign workers to alleviate the country's labor shortage, Japan will introduce a new residency status for foreign technical intern trainees as early as April 2019. Foreign nationals who have finished a five-year ... ( read original story ...)

Finance Ministry Financial Bureau head Mitsuru Ota speaks during a House of Councillors Audit Committee meeting on April 9, 2018. (Mainichi) TOKYO -- Finance Ministry Financial Bureau head Mitsuru Ota revealed in April 9 testimony to the House of ... ( read original story ...)

Many African countries are starting to look toward Asia to develop deeper economic relationships and tap into the region’s abundant investment resources to fund development needs, Ghanaian Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said Wednesday in an interview ... ( read original story ...)

Koh Ueda, a senior associate with significant experience in the structured financing of real estate projects, has joined the Real Estate Practice in the Tokyo office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP. He joins Greenberg Traurig from Nishimura ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japan's Finance Ministry proposed crafting a cover story with a school operator at the heart of a political scandal to justify a discount in the price of public land sold to the school, a ministry official said on Monday (April 9). ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Management at Concordia Financial Group, Japan's biggest regional banking conglomerate, will no longer be controlled by retirees from the Ministry of Finance -- first time in nearly seven decades for its subsidiary, Bank of Yokohama. The move ... ( read original story ...)

The Finance Ministry admitted in the Diet on April 9 that an official tried to persuade school operator Moritomo Gakuen to lie about the reason it was granted a massive discount for the sale of state-owned land in Osaka Prefecture. Mitsuru Ota, director ... ( read original story ...)

Growing integration of financial markets is a key reason. Researchers took a look at 44 cities and 40 advanced and emerging-market economies, and found that globally low interest rates have helped to push up prices the world over. What’s more ... ( read original story ...)