Tag: banking

For a currency regarded as being a safe-haven asset, the Japanese yen hasn’t been behaving like one of late. While divergent monetary policy settings between the US and Japan has contributed to the ye... ( read original story ...)

Asakawa became vice finance minister for international affairs at the finance ministry, or Japan's top financial diplomat, in 2015. His reappointment would make him the longest-serving top financial d... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, July 13 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei surged to 2-1/2-week highs on Friday, helped by a weaker yen and gains from index-heavy stock Fast Retailing after it jumped on the back of strong third-quart... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Financial Services Agency is set to issue business improvement orders against a subsidiary unit of Concordia Financial Group Ltd (7186.T) over illicit commissions and other b... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Japan’s biggest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (MUFG), will halt all Iran-related transactions to comply with the reimposition of US sanctions against Tehran later this year, accordin... ( read original story ...)

He has also criticized Japan for running large trade surpluses with the United States. Asakawa is close to Finance Minister Taro Aso, having served as his executive secretary when Aso was prime minist... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s biggest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (MUFG), will halt all Iran transactions to comply with the reimposition of U.S. sanctions against Tehran later this year, according to a docume... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s biggest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (MUFG) (8306.T), will halt all Iran-related transactions to comply with the reimposition of U.S. sanctions against Tehran lat... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's Financial Services Agency plans to discipline Higashi-Nippon Bank, a Tokyo-based regional bank, charging that its staff falsified customers' financial records to make them look better ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, July 12 (Reuters) - Japan's biggest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (MUFG), will halt all Iran-related transactions to comply with the reimposition of U.S. sanctions against Tehran lat... ( read original story ...)

Coinsquare, a Canadian cryptocurrency exchange, and DLTA 21 Blockchain Corp., a Canadian blockchain investment bank, have partnered up on a cryptocurrency trading in Japan. The two companies said the ... ( read original story ...)

Pecuniary trusts (index-linked exchange-traded funds held as trust property) 5 20,619,115,329 Pecuniary trusts (Japan real estate investment trusts held as trust property) 6 485,518,816 ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. retailer Walmart Inc (WMT.N) has decided to sell Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu and has already approached major retailers and private equity funds, the Nikkei business daily ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Walmart plans to unload its unit Seiyu, a major Japanese supermarket chain, Nikkei has learned, as the U.S. retail giant reviews its global operations amid intensifying competition from onlin... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- With the U.S. considering making exceptions to its demand that countries stop importing Iranian oil, Japan is looking to secure its oil supply and pursue business opportunities in the Middle ... ( read original story ...)

Headline indices of the Japan share market dropped on Wednesday, 11 July 2018, amid sign of escalating trade tensions between the world's two biggest economies after the United States said it would im... ( read original story ...)