Japan's three megabanks are planning to jointly issue corporate-use stablecoins pegged to legal tender like the yen and the dollar, aiming to promote their use in the country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/18/japan-banks-stablecoins/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #banks #mizuho #mufg #sumitomomitsui #cryptocurrencies
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has bought Japan National Stadium naming rights for five years, with the financial services company seeing opportunity in the investment. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/10/15/more-sports/mufg-national-stadium/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #nationalstadium #tokyo #2020tokyoolympics #mufg #banks #sponsorship #advertising
The heads of Japan’s biggest financial firms are going out of their way to assuage worries that artificial intelligence will take away jobs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/10/companies/bank-ceo-ai-push/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #banks #ai #mizuho #mufg #nomura #daiwa
The Tokyo District Court has sentenced a former employee of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group to nine years in prison for stealing cash and valuables from customers’ safe-deposit boxes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/06/japan/crime-legal/mufg-deposit-box-theft-ruling/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #mufg #japanesecourts #theft
Japan’s largest bank is recruiting more new graduates and experienced specialists as it seeks a bigger piece of the country’s growing wealth management market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/03/companies/mufg-wealth-management-market-push/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mufg #banks #wealth #jobs #investments
After refraining from setting up a retail outlet for some 20 years, MUFG Bank will open a novel small branch to deal exclusively with individual customers in Tokyo's Minato Ward. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/10/companies/mufg-bank-new-retail-outlet-near-takanawa-gateway-station/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mufg #banks #takanawagateway #tokyo #osaka
Since its 2023 launch, the value of Sakana AI has soared past $1 billion, making it Japan's fastest startup to reach so-called unicorn status. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/10/companies/sakana-ai-interview/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #sakanaai #ai #mufg #banks
Japanese issuers are on the verge of topping $100 billion in bond issuance across dollars and euros for the first time ever in any year, with companies from the nation storming the primary debt market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/02/economy/bond-milestone/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #dollar #japaneseeconomy #bonds #nomura #mufg
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is in talks with a number of governments as it seeks to build a pipeline of swaps to help developing nations refinance debt and free up funds for social and infrastructure projects. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/13/companies/mufg-helps-developing-nations-refinance-debt/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mufg #banks #debt
The combined net profits of Japan's five major banking groups rose 2.7% on the year in April-June due partly to growth in income from their lending operations reflecting interest rate hikes by the Bank of Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/05/companies/japan-banks-earnings-up/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #banks #mufg#sumitomomitsui #mizuho #donaldtrump #tariffs
The CEO of Japan’s largest bank has described September or October as "desirable" for the Bank of Japan to raise its policy rate, given the outlook for higher inflation in the country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/05/companies/mufg-rate-hike/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mufg #india #inflation #us #japaneseeconomy #tariffs #donaldtrump #boj #banks
MUFG Bank said Monday that a former employee in his 60s has defrauded a customer out of ¥39.84 million by suggesting fictitious financial products and issuing forged deposit receipts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/23/japan/ex-mufg-worker-defraud-customer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #mufg #fraud