Taiga Uranaka

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Taiga Uranaka

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1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Taiga Uranaka

For years, Nobuhiro Doi resisted calls for Japanese banks to end the long-standing practice of holding shares in their corporate clients. Now the 68-year-old president of Kyoto Financial Group Inc. is beginning to come around to the idea. “We cannot completely ignore increasingly demanding views toward strategic holdings,” Doi said in an interview at the bank’s headquarters in the ancient capital. He is also becoming more open to mergers, though he has no plans in place now.

1 week ago | japantimes.co.jp | Taiga Uranaka

For years, Nobuhiro Doi resisted calls for Japanese banks to end the long-standing practice of holding shares in their corporate clients. Now the 68-year-old president of Kyoto Financial Group is beginning to come around to the idea. "We cannot completely ignore increasingly demanding views toward strategic holdings,” Doi said in an interview at the bank’s headquarters in the ancient capital. He is also becoming more open to mergers, though he has no plans in place now.

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Taiga Uranaka

Nobuhiro Doi(Bloomberg) -- For years, Nobuhiro Doi resisted calls for Japanese banks to end the long-standing practice of holding shares in their corporate clients. Now the 68-year-old president of Kyoto Financial Group Inc. is beginning to come around to the idea. “We cannot completely ignore increasingly demanding views toward strategic holdings,” Doi said in an interview at the bank’s headquarters in the ancient capital.

1 week ago | japantimes.co.jp | Taiga Uranaka

Norinchukin Bank’s disastrous last fiscal year has had one silver lining for Japan’s $300 billion investing giant — it helped shield it from the turmoil unleashed by Donald Trump’s tariffs this month. New Chief Executive Taro Kitabayashi said the bank finished selling off its unprofitable U.S. Treasury holdings by the end of March, thus avoiding the volatility last week as Trump’s trade policies whipsawed markets.