Tags: Mizuho Financial Group
Citigroup seeking to sell Diners Club business in Japan with retail unit-sources
Citigroup Inc (C.N) on Friday told bidders for its Japanese retail banking operations that it was looking to sell its profitable Diners Club card business in Japan with the retail unit, sources with knowledge of the matter said.
Citigroup seeks to exit Japanese retail banking
Citigroup Inc (C.N) is preparing to sell its Japanese retail banking operations, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday, as it waves the white flag on a venture plagued by regulatory troubles and anemic lending.
Tsukamoto leaves Mizuho chairman post after second penalty due to crime loans
Mizuho Financial Group Inc will be seeing its chairman, Takashi Tsukamoto, leaving its post after its lending unit received penalties the second time within a three-month period due to loans it extended to crime groups.
Japan Gangster get loans by hiding crime ties
Orient Corp, a Japanese consumer credit company, had been probed by authorities for lending to crime groups with Mizuho Financial Group Inc.