Bank Danamon – A Shift Toward Lower Returns
The risk to Bank Danamon Indonesia (BDMN IJ) after the Mitsubishi Ufj Financial (8306 JP) take-over may be most clear when looking at peer bank...
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Rakuten Pay Tops the Japanese Cashless War
Readers interested in Japan's payments/cashless future should refer Michael Causton's excellent work in Who Will Win the Cashless Wars in...
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Japan Banks – Unloved for Many Reasons
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) offers negative interest rates on monies deposited. Japan’s banks are largely wholesale, with lumpy corporate loans and in...
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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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Mizuho Financial Group (8411 JP): Writing Off the Past
Mizuho Financial Group (8411 JP) (MHFG) has slashed its forecast for FY3/2019 consolidated net profits from ¥570 billion to just ¥80 billion,...
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