Japanese Banks: Beyond the Ides of March
“Beware the Ides of March”: the soothsayer’s repeated warning to ancient Rome’s most famous emperor in William Shakespeare’s play ‘Julius Caesar’. ...
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Concordia Financial Group (7186 JP): Out of Focus
CY2018 was not a good year for Concordia Financial Group, Ltd (7186 JP) (CFG), the holding company for one of Japan’s largest regional banks, the...
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Chiba Bank (8331 JP): Top Dog
Chiba Bank (8331 JP) , Japan’s 4th-largest regional bank in terms of deposits, loans or total assets, reported consolidated recurring profits for...
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Concordia FG (7186 JP): Oil on Troubled Waters
The economic and reputational fall-out from the Higashi-Nippon Bank ’inappropriate lending’ scandal and subsequent FSA Business Improvement Order...
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Tochigi Bank (8550 JP): Hoisting the First Flag
Interim results announced on Wednesday by tiny secondary regional bank Tochigi Bank (8550 JP) were unremarkable in themselves, although they fell...
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