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...Jun Ohta, the chief executive of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and the driving force behind the bank’s recent wave of expansion in the US and south-east Asia, has died at the age of 65....
...It will be only their second in-person meeting as leaders — the first being a year ago at the G20 in Bali, Indonesia....
...Mitsui Financial....
...Robeco, Aviva Investors, Legal & General Investment Management, and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management were among the signees....
...Yet non-profits remain sceptical of efforts — notably by Japanese megabanks like Mizuho Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Group and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group — and point out loopholes, including the...
...It booked a $1.9bn charge on its stake in Indonesian lender PT Bank Danamon Indonesia last quarter....
...It makes his investment company Berkshire Hathaway one of the biggest shareholders in Mitsubishi Corp, Mitsui & Co, Itochu Corp, Sumitomo Corp and Marubeni Corp....
...Art of the deal Temasek, the Singaporean investment group, is launching a $730m fund to invest in Asian technology start-ups, including Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp, the Development Bank of Japan...
...For instance, the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has turned up the heat on Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) for financing companies it says are destroying tropical rainforests in Malaysia and...
...Its sale of CommInsure Life in Australia to AIA and of BoComm Life in China To Mitsui Sumitomo were both still pending regulatory approval but expected to go through in the first half of 2019, the bank said...
...CBA said the sale of its stake in BoComm Life to Mitsui Sumitomo will result in an after tax gain of around A$450m ($340.7m)....
...MUFG said the deal, announced on Wednesday and scheduled to complete next year, will make it the biggest asset manager in the Asia-Oceania region and propel it past rival Sumitomo Mitsui Trust with $727bn...
...Mitsui Banking Corporation....
...If that is the case, then among the biggest winners stand to be Japanese lenders MUFG, Mizuho Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, whose business models are not only directly eroded by Japan...
...Toshiyuki Murai, chief investment officer at Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management in Hong Kong, is bullish on the infrastructure sector, including engineering and cement....
...The tunnel contractors are Sumitomo Mitsui Construction as well as a consortium of Wijaya Karya, Jaya Konstruksi, Shimizu and Obayashi....
...Mitsui....
...BTMU’s rivals, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Mizuho Bank have, within the past five years, built stakes in banks in Vietnam and Hong Kong....
...China won the Indonesia project by offering to finance it without any recourse to Indonesia’s government....
...by Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group – are trying to muscle in to BRI’s lucrative microlending domain....
...Mr Sato noted that the approach differed from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Japan’s other megabanks, where overseas assets were pumped up by acquisitions, rather than...
...Bidders through to a second stage of more detailed discussions include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, and Shinsei Bank....
...Last year David Bonderman of TPG called Indonesia the most overvalued market in the world – just after it sold its stake in an Indonesian bank to Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui....
...It has teamed up with Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Bank for a payment system, with Sony Music Entertainment and Avex Digital for a subscription-based music streaming service, and with publishers Kodansha...
...The president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has said that building loan books outside Japan remains the group’s focus, even as lending within the country picks up under the policies of Prime Minister...
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