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  Mizuho Financial Group
Please give a brief description of the Mizuho Financial Group.
Please explain the Mizuho Financial Group's corporate governance policy.
Please give an overview of Mizuho's financial results for the first half of FY2006.
www.mizuho-fg.co.jp /english   (154 words)

  
  Mizuho Bank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
) is a Japanese bank that was established on April 1, 2002 by the merger of the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and the retail operations of the Fuji Bank.
It forms the core consumer banking unit of Mizuho Financial Group, which is the second-largest financial services company in Japan and one of the three so-called Japanese "megabanks" (along with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group).
Mizuho Bank is active in retail banking with 515 branches and over 11,000 ATM machines.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mizuho_Bank   (356 words)

  
 Japanese Banking Giant Mizuho Seeks Tieups with Two Major Corean (Korean) Banks | Asian American Daily | GoldSea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mizuho Corporate Bank, one of three banking units of Mizuho Financial Group, is seeking to partner with both Shinhan Bank and Korea Development Bank, becoming the first Japanese megabank to invest in a major South Korean financial group, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said, without citing sources.
Mizuho plans to sign agreements on a capital and business tie-up with Shinhan and an operational tie-up with Korea Development Bank as early as the end of September, and officially announce the deals after obtaining approval from financial authorities in each country, the report said.
Mizuho Financial Group, Japan's second-biggest bank by assets, said in July that its profit rose 33 percent in the fiscal first quarter as cost-cutting efforts and stock market gains lifted the company's performance.
goldsea.com /Asiagate/609/10mizuho.html   (454 words)

  
 CNN.com - Japan's mega-banks eye profits - May. 26, 2003
But the banks claim they are aggressively cleaning up their bad loan problems and will be in the fl this year.
Mizuho said its three core banks -- Mizuho Bank, Mizuho Corporate Bank and Mizuho Trust & Banking -- lost a total of 924.95 billion yen on their equity holdings because of the slump in share prices.
Bank of Yokohama, the country's leading regional bank, reported a group net profit of 16.90 billion yen ($144 million), down 15 percent from 19.85 billion yen a year earlier.
www.cnn.com /2003/BUSINESS/05/26/japan.banklosses.biz   (781 words)

  
 CNN.com - Mizuho seen speeding up writeoffs - Oct. 31, 2002
The bank, the wholesale unit of Mizuho Holdings, will dispose of the loans to around 150 large companies that are bankrupt or close to it, the Asahi Shimbun reports.
Mizuho Corporate Bank said in October that it was scaling back its risk assets by 5 trillion to 7 trillion yen this business year.
Mizuho stock is down 1.61 percent at 183,000 yen late on Friday morning, with most banks down despite a 0.39 percent rise in the Nikkei average.
edition.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/asia/10/31/japan.mizuho   (310 words)

  
 The Bank of New York: Press Release
Mizuho Trust and Banking Co., Ltd. is a group company of the Mizuho Financial Group, a leading financial services group in Japan.
The Bank of New York Company, Inc. (NYSE: BK) is a global leader in providing a comprehensive array of services that enable institutions and individuals to move and manage their financial assets in more than 100 markets worldwide.
Its principal subsidiary, The Bank of New York, founded in 1784, is the oldest bank in the United States and has consistently played a prominent role in the evolution of financial markets worldwide.
www.bankofny.com /htmlpages/npr_2005_1714.htm   (581 words)

  
 DataDirect Helps Mizuho Bank Integrate Disparate Technology for Access to Real-Time Market Data: Customers: Company: ...
Mizuho needed data connectivity technology that already provided the interoperability they needed to re-build a key market analysis system, which was destroyed during the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center.
Mizuho Bank uses the data to perform analysis and make decisions to minimize risk to the bank while maximizing return.
Mizuho Bank's customers benefit when the bank can maximize its returns on investment, in which this application plays a crucial role.
www.datadirect.com /company/customers/mizuho/index.ssp   (894 words)

  
 CNN.com - Mizuho glitch cleanup to last a month - April 18, 2002
Mizuho's three member banks chose March 31, the end of Japan's business year, as the date to merge into two companies: Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Corporate Bank.
The bank's spokesman says it did not know of the computer-code mistake, which then snowballed before the bank could fix it, due to the vast amount of data involved.
Mizuho says it would have been more disruptive to the Japanese banking system in general for it to retract its integration.
edition.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/asia/04/18/japan.mizuho   (686 words)

  
 TradeCard Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mizuho Corporate Bank was established on April 1, 2002, through the corporate split and merger process of The Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Limited, The Fuji Bank, Limited and The Industrial Bank of Japan, as the pillar of the Mizuho Financial Group "MHFG" along with its sister bank, Mizuho Bank.
Mizuho Corporate Bank, as a professional bank specializing in corporate finance and possessing an office network that spans the globe, aims to provide superior business solutions by taking advantage of leading edge financial and information technologies.
Mizuho Corporate Bank goal is to respond to the increasingly diverse and sophisticated financial and business strategy needs of the customers both in Japan and abroad.
www.tradecard.com /news/pressreleases/mizuho.html   (656 words)

  
 Mizuho Bank employee held over leaked client data - Boston.com
Japanese police arrested a Mizuho Bank employee on Wednesday on suspicion of leaking confidential information on corporate and individual clients, the bank said.
The clients all had accounts at a Mizuho Bank branch in Shinjuku, central Tokyo, where the employee had worked as head of a customer service group.
Mizuho Bank is the retail arm of Mizuho Financial Group <8411.T>, Japan's second-biggest lender.
www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/02/08/mizuho_bank_employee_held_over_leaked_client_data   (237 words)

  
 Foreign Exchange Bank Dealers
Mizuho Securities is the result of a merger of the securities subsidiaries of the three banks, which will be fully integrated in April 2002.
National Bank of Canada - An active social and economic force for the past 140 years, the National Bank of Canada is today the sixth largest chartered bank in Canada with assets of $69 billion.
Norinchukin Bank (the "Bank") was established in 1923 as a quasi-governmental financial institution.
www.forexlisting.com /bank_dealers_7.asp   (1640 words)

  
 Inner City Press' Mizuho Watch: Dai-Ichi + IBJ + Fuji = ???
Mizuho then released a small portion of the CRA information, while continuing to withhold basic information such as its organizational chart and list of principles, information that is routinely released in other proceedings on applications by Mizuho's competitors.
Mizuho represents that the business relationships cited by ICP were limited to equipment leases to Delta and Ameriquest by subsidiaries of DKB and Fuji, and that a credit facility arranged by IBJ for PinnFund expired without being funded.
Mizuho would own at least five FDIC-insured institutions (“banks”), and a retail subprime consumer finance company, the CIT Group, which is seeking to charter and shift its subprime lending to another bank, which would be Mizuho’s sixth in the United States.
www.innercitypress.org /mizuho.html   (12655 words)

  
 Mizuho: when east meets west - Banking Business Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mizuho is also said to be considering a more significant capital tie-up with another financial institution to take a part in its fledgling private banking unit, although this has yet to be confirmed.
With Mizuho having no prior experience of private banking it will struggle to create from scratch the knowledge, resources and experience needed to run a complex private banking operation for wealthy clients, though the product development skills of its new US partners will obviously be a substantial benefit.
Given Mizuho's size, it should not be hard to find a major private bank willing to form a venture which will, after all, give the foreign firm access to one of the biggest client bases within the potentially lucrative Japanese market.
www.banking-business-review.com /article_feature.asp?guid=1C704889-CC56-4299-BC21-AF16D79485B6   (476 words)

  
 Mizuho Bank - Panama Offshore Banking Guide
HSBC Bank John Kenneth Galbraith said that “if the history of commercial banking belongs to the Italians and of central banking to the British, that of paper money issued by a government belongs indubitably to the Americans”.
Bank Hapoalim The bank is active in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Citigroup is the leading foreign exchange bank in Latin America, a region in which it has long had a presence.
www.banksinpanama.com /mizuhobank.html   (521 words)

  
 A jumbo from Japan: Mizuho Holdings Global Finance - Find Articles
Mizuho Holdings Financial Group (MHFG) was established in September 2000 and with $1.4 trillion in assets is now the largest financial group in the world.
The group consists of the three merged banks; the wholesale bank Mizuho Securities, which itself was formed as a result of the merger of the securities divisions of the three banks; and Mizuho Trust & Banking, the banking arm of the group; it will commence business in April 2002.
The main challenge now facing Mizuho Group is the integration of the three existing information systems, a process that began in January 2000 and is scheduled to be completed by March 2002.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3715/is_200107/ai_n8954461   (793 words)

  
 Investor's Business Daily: Breaking News
Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. is a group company of the Mizuho Financial Group, a leading financial services group in Japan.
Mizuho Bank operates over 500 branches as of September 2004, and holds some 26 personal accounts and approximately 90,000 borrowers among SMEs and middle market corporations.
The Bank of New York Company, Inc. (BK) is a global leader in providing a comprehensive array of services that enable institutions and individuals to move and manage their financial assets in more than 100 markets worldwide.
www.investors.com /breakingnews.asp?journalid=27216735   (777 words)

  
 News @ Cisco: Mizuho Corporate Bank Installs Cisco Technology to Create a Large-scale High-speed Optical Network ...
Mizuho controls a capital of 710 billion yen and was created through the merger of three of Japan's leading banks.
Mizuho Corporate Bank Co., Ltd. was founded together with Mizuho Bank as a core part of the Mizuho Financial Group on April 1, 2002 with the breakup and merger of the Daiichi Kangyo Bank, Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan.
Mizuho uses leading financial technology and information technology to provide quality solutions as a professional bank for corporate finance with a global network.
newsroom.cisco.com /dlls/prod_041103c.html?CMP=AF17154   (1129 words)

  
 FT.com / Companies / Financial services - Mizuho Bank loses data on 270,000 clients
Japan’s Mizuho Bank, plagued by system problems since its launch in 2002, said on Wednesday it had lost confidential account data on 270,000 customers.
The bank said an internal investigation had uncovered no evidence that the data had been leaked to outsiders or misused.
Mizuho has struggled with problems related to system integration and data management since the retail unit’s launch in April 2002 following the merger of three predecessor banks.
news.ft.com /cms/s/594c85b0-a0da-11d9-95e5-00000e2511c8.html   (395 words)

  
 Banker Middle East - Your Indispensable Guide to the Regional Banking Industry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In November 2002 AMP Banking announced that it would focus on retail banking and mortgage lending in Australia, and a restructuring of that core business may yet be in the pipeline.
Mizuho itself will own 60% of the new venture that will be capitalised at Y100 million and that will be a vehicle for the restructuring of Mizuho’s $39 billion bad loan portfolio.
One thorn in Bank Austria’s side is the government of the Austrian province of Burgenland, which has filed a lawsuit against the bank relating to the year 2000 collapse of the Bank of Burgenland.
www.bankerme.com /bme/2003/jun/world_news.asp   (1787 words)

  
 Mizuho Financial Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mizuho is active in retail banking with 515 branches and over 11,000 ATM machines.
Mizuho was established originally as Mizuho Holdings, Inc. by the merger of DKB, Fuji and IBJ in 2000.
Subsequently, through a share exchange on March 12, 2003, Mizuho Financial Group became the sole shareholder of Mizuho Holdings, which in turn served as the holding company of all of the group's banking and securities units.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mizuho_Financial_Group   (639 words)

  
 Lost: Data from 270,000 bank accounts | CNET News.com
Mizuho Financial Group, which owns the retail bank, said it had lost customer account numbers and names at 167 branches over several years, according to a Financial Times report on Wednesday.
The bank is said to have suffered problems integrating systems and managing data since it was formed three years ago.
The bank, which is conducting an internal investigation, has said that the data was probably not stolen.
news.com.com /2110-1029_3-5647165.html   (302 words)

  
 Mizuho reports 15% profit increase - Banking Business Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mizuho Financial Group, Japan's biggest bank, has announced a 15% increase in Q1 profits due to a stronger national economy and concentrated efforts to wipe out bad debts.
The Mizuho Financial Group, which comprises both corporate and retail banking businesses, has lifted its earnings outlook for the half-year driven partly by the strong performance of Mizuho Corporate bank.
Mizuho Financial Group was formed in 2002 when the Industrial Bank of Japan, Fuji Bank and Dai-Ichi Kangyo decided to combine operations.
www.banking-business-review.com /article_news_print.asp?guid=3155187D-5E2B-4C6E-95AD-AC44DF2C5CB0   (239 words)

  
 Algorithmics Incorporated - Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The partnership with Mizuho Financial Group cements Algorithmics' strong presence in Japan.
Mizuho Holdings Incorporated was formed in September 2000 as a bank holding company of Mizuho Financial Group by the consolidation of The Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank, Limited, The Fuji Bank, Limited, and The Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited.
The Mizuho Bank, Limited and The Mizuho Corporate Bank, Limited will be the banking arm of Mizuho Financial Group and commence business in April 2002.
www.algorithmics.com /aboutalgo/press-releases/2001-may09-mizuho.shtml   (268 words)

  
 Payments News: Japan - Mizuho Bank, UC Card, NTT DoCoMo Agreement - March 08, 2006
NTT DoCoMo, UC Card Co., and Mizuho Bank have announced a comprehensive agreement which includes joint promotion of DoCoMo's iD brand card business.
Under the agreement, Mizuho Bank will transfer its stake in UC Card (approximately 18% of UC Card's outstanding shares) to DoCoMo for about 1 billion yen in the middle of March 2006.
Under the agreement, Credit Saison will give their credit card owners the option of making payments via iD. Mizuho Bank will also give the same option to the holders of Mizuho Mileage Club Card, an ATM card with credit card functions issued by Credit Saison.
www.paymentsnews.com /2006/03/japan_mizuho_ba.html   (360 words)

  
 Mizuho Bank Korea Branch - Offshore Investments, Offshore Banking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mizuho Bank Offshore - Offshore Investments, Offshore Banking
Mizuho Bank Zushi Branch Mizuho Bank Zushi Branch.
Mizuho Bank Korea Branch - Offshore Asset Protection.
www.offshore-resources.net /mizuhobankkoreabranch.htm   (270 words)

  
 About MCMC
Mizuho Capital Markets Corporation ("MCMC")  is the specialized financial derivatives subsidiary within the Mizuho Financial Group.
The new entity was created on January 1, 2001, from the merger of DKB Financial Products, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Limited and Fuji Capital Markets Corporation(the surviving company), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Fuji Bank, Limited.
MCMC is a U.S. swaps house that is indirectly wholly-owned by Mizuho Corporate Bank (MHCB).
www.mizuhocap.com /about.html   (136 words)

  
 Spyware Criminal Hits Japan Bank Accounts - Technology News by TechWeb
By Several Japanese banks have reported that a spyware thief tapped compromised accounts more or less simultaneously, and spirited away hundreds of thousands of yen.
According to published reports in the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's largest dailies, a trio of banks--eBank, Mizuho Bank, and Japan Net Bank-- said that illegal transfers were made to the same receiving account, making it likely the work of just one thief.
Sources told the Shimbun that "hundreds of thousands" of yen were moved from the account of an Mizuho Bank customer on July 1, and 130,000 yen ($1,170).
www.techweb.com /showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165700529   (417 words)

  
 Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. Careers: Vault Career & Hiring Profiles
Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. employee surveys are collected by Vault editors, Vault Gold Surveys provide detailed information on careers and hiring at specific employers.
As with many other foreign firms, the bank is infused with the culture o...
We provide a free insider career profile on Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd., based on interviews and surveys of Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. employees.
www.vault.com /career-company/Mizuho-Corporate-Bank--Ltd..html   (357 words)

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