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Olympus is seeking a partner with deep pockets, so we asked readers who they reckoned fits the bill.
By Nick Ferguson | 14 February 2012
We are pleased to invite Japan’s leading financial institutions to submit for this year’s awards.
By FinanceAsia Editors | 30 January 2012
M&A
Nippon Life Insurance enters a new alliance with Reliance as it buys a 26% stake in the Indian group's asset management business.
By Lara Wozniak | 20 January 2012
M&A
For the second day in a row, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group announces an investment in a business that builds its advisory capabilities.
By Lara Wozniak | 19 January 2012
M&A
Sumitomo Mitsui buys RBS's aircraft leasing division as the UK lender continues to sell its non-core businesses.
By Rupert Walker | 18 January 2012
Ashley steps into the role made vacant last week when former global markets head Tarun Jotwani left the firm.
By Denise Wee | 18 January 2012
While the economy shows signs of a comeback, one of Japan’s top executives says the strong yen will likely haunt the country’s exporters for years.
By Aiko Hayashi | 18 January 2012
The bank has made major lay-offs in institutional and retail equity sales and structuring in the region, amid whispers it plans to shut its equities and corporate finance units ...
By Joe Marsh | 12 January 2012
Nomura's chief of the wholesale division and deputy president of Nomura, Jasjit "Jesse" Bhattal, retires. Takumi Shibata takes over his responsibilities on an interim basis.
By Lara Wozniak | 11 January 2012
Japan feels the effect of Deutsche Bank's plans to cut about 500 positions in its corporate banking and securities division, primarily outside Germany, by March next year.
By Aiko Hayashi | 9 December 2011
M&A
A runaway yen and timely exit strategies at private equity firms are persuading more medium-size Japanese companies that now is the time to jump into the overseas M&A market.
By Martin Foster | 7 December 2011
HDFC partners with Vodafone in India to launch mobile banking, while Mizuho Corporate Bank implements a FircoSoft solution.
By Jonathan Wong | 6 December 2011
Chinese shoppers are rushing to Japan to pick up products unavailable at home, which is a boon for a retail industry suffering from falling household spending.
By Martin Foster | 5 December 2011
As Japan loses confidence in nuclear energy after the Fukushima Daiichi plant meltdowns in March, the challenge is to find a new energy policy.
By Aiko Hayashi | 30 November 2011
The Swiss bank is moving Olivier Thiriet from Hong Kong to Tokyo to run the Japan business after Paul Kuo’s departure in January.
By Nick Ferguson | 10 November 2011
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