Mizuho - News, Articles & Research

Company announcement/crime

Mizuho Bank Luxemburg upgrades anti-financial crime compliance risk management with Napier

Mizuho Trust and Banking (Luxembourg) S.A , the Luxembourg subsidiary of Japan’s Mizuho Trust & Banking division (part of Mizuho Financial Group) , is upgrading its Transaction Monitoring framework strategy through a partnership with Napier, the financial crime compliance technology specialist.

10 January 2023

Company announcement/sustainable

LSEG and Mizuho join forces for sustainability

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) and Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (“Mizuho”), one of Japan’s leading global financial institutions, today announced an agreement to collaborate in providing sustainability solutions to the bank’s corporate clients.

11 November 2022

News/cloud

Mizuho to shift operations to Google Cloud

Japan's Mizuho is to move into the banking-as-a-service market and re-engineer its operations through an alliance with Google Cloud.

23 March 2022

Company announcement/markets

Mizuho Americas signs with Quantifi

Quantifi, a provider of risk, analytics and trading solutions today announced that it has been selected by Mizuho Americas, an integral part of the Japan-based Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., to support its expanding equity derivatives platform.

16 February 2022

News/retail

Mizuho leads $131 million round in Filipino neobank Tonik

Philippines-based digital neobank Tonik has closed a $131 million Series B equity round led by Japan's Mizuho Bank and set its sights on expansion across Asia.

10 February 2022

Company announcement/payments

Mizuho Bank invests in Vietnamese digital payment services company M-Service

Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (President & CEO: Koji Fujiwara), a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.(President & Group CEO: Tatsufumi Sakai), has acquired shares (equivalent to an approximate 7.5%share) of Online Mobile Services Joint Stock Company (“M-Service”) on December 20, 2021.

23 December 2021

News/people

Mizuho CEO quits over series of IT problems

Mizuho Financial Group CEO Tatsufumi Sakai has resigned after Japan's banking regulator hit the firm with a business improvement order related to a series of systems glitches.

29 November 2021

News/crypto

Japanese banks to test digital currency

A consortium of 74 Japanese firms - including the country's biggest banks - have set out plans to start testing a private sector digital yen in the coming months.

24 November 2021

News/people

Mizuho president Fujiwara to step down following series of IT failures

Mizuho Bank President Koji Fujiwara is to fall on his sword after being held responsible for a widespread series of outages that hit the Japanese bank between February and March.

14 June 2021

Company announcement/retail

Mizuho and Line raise investment in build for new smartphone bank

LINE Corporation (“LINE”) and Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (“Mizuho Financial Group”) announced today that their respective subsidiaries, LINE Financial Corporation (“LINE Financial”) and Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (“Mizuho Bank”), have jointly agreed to make an additional investment and a change to the management structure of LINE Bank Preparatory Company.

22 February 2021

Company announcement/regulation

Fenergo automates client onboarding for Mizuho Americas

Fenergo, the leading provider of digital transformation, customer journey and client lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for financial institutions, today announces that Mizuho Americas has deployed Fenergo’s software to automate Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory processes, digitalize workflows and accelerate client onboarding onto a single platform.

06 January 2021

News/identity

Fujitsu, JCB and Mizuho to test digital identity interoperability

Fujitsu, JCB and Mizuho Bank are to jointly test a system that enables secure transactions involving sensitive user ID information between companies and industries.

20 October 2020