Tag: banking

Japan's SoftBank Corp began trading Wednesday in Tokyo in Japan's biggest-ever IPO and one of the largest the world has seen. Shares open down 6.40 percent at 1,404.00 yen on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. ... ( read original story ...)

JPMorgan Chase & Co., Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., Mizuho Financial Group Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are the joint global coordinators. Son is transforming his Tokyo-based company from ... ( read original story ...)

Japan on Tuesday announced it would retrofit its "helicopter carriers" to carry F-35B stealth jets to respond to threats from Russia, China, and North Korea. The new F-35 carriers will not only give J... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan plans its first aircraft carrier and big increases in defense spending and weapons capability in the coming years, according to new defense guidelines approved Tuesday that cite it... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan will promote the free flow of personal data with the U.S. and the European Union by creating common rules on privacy protection, Nikkei has learned. The new standards, to be worked ... ( read original story ...)

Headline indices of the Japan share market closed higher on Monday, 17 December 2018, as investors chased for bottom fishing following a sharp decline late last week. However, market gains capped on r... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The Japanese government will encourage foreign workers coming in under a new visa program to spread out into outlying areas rather than congregate in the largest cities, according to a ... ( read original story ...)

according to the latest survey by Nikkei/TV Tokyo. Forty-eight percent were against the policy change, approved by Japan's parliament this month, while 40% favored allowing the increase in foreign ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA, Japan, Dec. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- "AlkaNight Co., Ltd.," jointly owned by the Dentsu group and Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd., and Osaka Castle Park Management Co., Ltd., launched their ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should ensure that spending measures to ease the pain on the economy from next year's scheduled sales tax hike are temporary and well-communicated, a senior International ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - As the risks to the global economy rises, the Bank of Japan is expected to join a chorus of warnings from other policy-makers of the threat to growth from protectionism and ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan will take measures to help workers from abroad meet essential needs in their everyday lives ahead of an influx expected next year to address the nation's labor shortage. The ... ( read original story ...)

The limit on savings at Japan Post Bank will be doubled to ¥26 million per depositor in exchange for a promise to make efforts to reduce the government’s equity ownership of the bank, sources have sai... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Domestic investors have sought nearly double the number of shares offered by SoftBank Group Corp’s (9984.T) soon-to-list wireless unit, two sources from a lead IPO underwriter ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc (SMFG) on Friday named finance head Jun Ota as chief executive, at a time when Japan’s third-largest bank draws growing attention for possible mer... ( read original story ...)

Confidence among Japan's biggest manufacturers was unchanged this quarter after slipping for three consecutive surveys, central bank data showed on Friday. The Bank of Japan's Tankan report -- a quart... ( read original story ...)