The Bank of Japan serves as the primary lever for the nation’s monetary policy, maintaining price stability through its structural independence from the central government. As a corporate entity ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The "Takaichi trade" that propelled Japanese stocks to record highs this week passed by the banking sector, which heavily underperformed the market as investors, bracing for Sanae ...

The tower for SMBC happens to be the former home of another big bank, and is well-known as the jukebox building.

Japanese banks tend to structure compensation plans in a way that makes it difficult to give outsized pay to specific employees. By establishing an in-house company to avoid such constraints, it shows ...

LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese banks Mizuho and MUFG are targeting buying or partnering with overseas money managers, they told Reuters, joining other Japanese financial companies aiming for a ...

Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), speaks during a news conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo, ...

The Japanese yen has been under pressure in the past few years as markets focused on the wide U.S.-Japan interest rate ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Several large banks said they were closing bullish trade recommendations on the Japanese yen after the country's ruling party on Sunday picked as its leader Sanae Takaichi, whose ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - When Japan's biggest banks helped finance a $34 billion deal last year for medical supply maker Medline, one of the largest leveraged buyouts since the financial crisis, the famously ...

A slew of big-ticket leveraged buyouts in Japan are opening up opportunities for international banks unlike any they have seen in this market segment for over 15 years. Domestic lenders have dominated ...

The Nikkei 225 Index pulled back from its record highs as crude oil prices jumped amid new hostilities between the US and ...