We introduced our new in-house company system that is divided by customer segments.
The previous ten units were reorganized into the following five in-house companies
and two units to determine and execute strategies and initiatives group-wide.
Retail & Business Banking Company
In the asset management business area, we have expanded our line of products
and provided advice for asset management by utilizing NISA (a Japanese version
of Individual Savings Account that provides individual customers with tax exemption
for income related to certain investments up to a maximum amount) in order to
meet customer needs, while also fulfilling our fiduciary duties. In addition,
Mizuho Bank engages in brokerage services of Mizuho Securities’ financial
products.
Furthermore, in order to support the smooth succession of our customers’
assets, we provide services such as inheritance distribution service and testamentary-trust
that utilize trust function, and we have also expanded our line of products
such as family trusts and annual fund giving trusts.
With respect to the loan business, we have expanded our line of housing loan
and card loan products and offer various products and services in response to
each customer’s life stage, including release of products utilizing value
of housing assets of the customer.
We also provide products/services with officers and directors of our corporate
clients, such as opening account for payrolls, providing housing loans, management
of retirement payments, etc.
In addition, we strengthen our marketing skills by enhancing our internet banking
function as well as call center marketing with sophisticated technologies.
Further we undertake the business related to lottery tickets, such as the sales
of lottery tickets issued by prefectures and government-ordinance-designated
cities.
For small and medium-sized enterprises and middle market firms, the Retail &
Business Banking Company will provide solutions with respect to both types of
needs: management issues such as business development; and personal issues of
customers who are business owners, etc., such as asset inheritance and management,
etc.
Starting from consulting services based on a customer-focused approach, we
offer multilayered solutions in response to the various development stages of
our customers’ businesses through the combined strength of our banking,
trust, securities, asset management and research & consulting functions.
Specifically, with an aim to provide financial services together with sophisticated
advisory services that are appropriate in light of the customers’ business
strategies, we respond to customers’ needs through offering optimal solutions
for businesses such as offering syndicated loans targeted at small and medium-sized
enterprises and middle market firms, advisory services related to overseas expansions,
mergers and acquisitions-related services and business matching services, in
addition to developing the financial products brokerage business and strengthening
the initiatives to enhance the customer base for trustee business for defined
contribution pension plans.
Furthermore, due to the aging population of directors of Japanese businesses,
business succession and asset inheritance has become a matter of urgency. Using
our succession and property know-how, we offer positive solutions for optimal
and smooth succession for customers with respect to both types of needs arising
from personal and corporate capital management policy and organizational restructuring,
and measures for smooth inheritance by successors of business ownership and
corporate stock.
Moreover, we plan to expand our future customer base by making full use of our
existing customer base to discover innovative companies that show future promise
for the integrated group and by strengthening financing for growth.
In this manner, we aim to grow with our customers into a “financial services
consulting company.”
Corporate & Institutional Company
The Corporate & Institutional Company engages in relationship management
for our customers that are large corporations, financial institutions and public
sector businesses in Japan.
For large corporate customers, based on our solid customer relationships and
utilizing our global industry knowledge, we offer group-wide financial solutions
that are tailor made for each customer, such as syndicate loans, bonds and M&A,
etc., on a global basis to meet our customers’ needs in fund-raising,
investment, management and financial strategies.
Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Securities introduced the dual-hat structure in several
offices in Japan. Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Securities collaborate to provide our
customers solutions based on their capital management, business strategy and
financial strategy on a global basis.
Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Trust & Banking together provide solutions in relation
to real estate (regarding which we have a leading track record in the industry
in Japan), pension, securitization of assets, securities management, stock transfer
agent, consulting, etc., to our customers’ diversified needs for investment
and asset reduction.
Further, we are proactively providing risk money to develop next-generation
industries and growth industries.
For our customers that are financial institutions, we offer advisory services
and solutions, such as advice on financial strategy and proposals on various
investment products, by concentrating our various financial expertise from each
group company to meet the increasingly sophisticated and varied needs of customers.
For public sector customers, as a leading bank rich in experience and with a
history of achieving results, we provide optimal financial services group-wide
that include funding support as a trustee and underwriter of public bonds and
services as a designated financial institution.
In the field of the revitalization of regional areas in Japan, which forms
a part of the government’s Japan Revitalization Strategy, we engage in
activities such as encouraging the transformation of the agricultural, forestry
and fishing industries into growth sectors, and launching PPP and PFI projects
in airports and other public facilities, in collaboration with regional financial
institutions, national and regional government entities and their affiliates.
Throughout these endeavors, we aim to be our customers’ most trusted partner.
Global Corporate Company
The Global Corporate Company works with non-Japanese companies and Japanese
companies operating outside Japan.
For our Japanese corporate customers, we provide unified support both in and
outside Japan to help them expand their overseas operations. We offer highly
specialized services that use our advanced financial technologies and expertise.
Particularly in the Asia region, we support Japanese corporate customers developing
new markets by offering advisory and other services.
We are also expanding business with non-Japanese corporate customers, including
U.S. and European global companies developing business in Asia as well as Asian
multinational enterprises expanding within Asia, through our global network.
With respect to our non-Japanese corporate customers, we are proceeding with
our strategy of focusing on blue-chip customers. We have acquired the North
American wholesale asset portfolio from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as
an initiative to accelerate this strategy. With over 100 people joining from
RBS, we are further enhancing the integration of our banking and securities
functions and expanding our blue-chip customer base in the Americas. Our presence
has grown as evidenced by our involvement in major M&A deals that led to
industry realignments and our rising position in
US debt capital market league tables.
Meanwhile, we are supporting these moves by expanding our overseas office network
and strengthening our business support framework for our customers outside Japan.
We opened the Yangon Branch and the Thilawa Front Office in Myanmar, the Ahmedabad
Branch in India, the San Francisco Representative Office in the United States
and the Vienna Branch in Austria. In Mexico, we received approval from the financial
authority to establish a local bank and are making preparations to start its
operation within 2016.
We are also working with government-affiliated institutions and financial institutions
of various countries, forming business alliances as necessary, to provide up-to-date
local information and other entry support to our customers interested in starting
business in new markets. We are enhancing our service framework to address the
diverse needs of customers, who also need post-entry support.
As we see major changes in the global economy and the regulatory framework,
we aim to achieve sustainable growth by improving our business portfolio, promoting
cross-selling and strengthening our business and management base.
Global Markets Company
In addition to asset liability management and investment business with respect
to interest rates, equities and credit, etc., the Global Markets Company will
provide sales and trading services to a wide range of customers, from individuals
to institutional investors, by offering a comprehensive range of market related
products, such as interest rates, foreign exchange, equities and commodities.
With respect to the sales and trading business, through a management structure
based on customer segments, we offer detailed products and services to meet
the diverse needs of our customers and support their global business by integrating
our banking, trust and securities functions and utilizing our global network.
Specifically, we are strengthening our contact with customers at branches for
our customers that are small and medium-sized enterprises and middle market
firms, and we are providing ideas that reflect market perspectives for transactions
involving large corporations and financial institutions. For investors such
as hedge funds and asset managers, we use our comprehensive strength in banking
and securities to provide products that meet our customers’ needs.
In addition, with respect to asset liability management and investment business,
we combine our early detection of trends and diversification of our investments
to manage market fluctuations so that our portfolio is more sound and stable.
The Global Markets Company aims at becoming a leading global player in Asia
by utilizing its capacity to offer a wide range of products based on the collaboration
among the banking, trust banking and securities functions.
Asset Management Company
While fulfilling fiduciary duties, the Asset Management Company develops products
and provides services that correspond to the needs of a broad customer base
ranging from individuals to institutional investors. In addition to preparing
for the establishment of the integrated asset management company “Asset
Management One,” we will:
provide individual customers with products that help them build up their assets;
increase our capacity to provide and select products that match the diversified
needs of customers, such as pension funds; and
strengthen our efforts to offer comprehensive services such as providing defined
contribution and benefit pension services simultaneously to meet client needs.
We entered into an alliance with Matthews International Capital Management,
an independent, privately owned firm and the largest dedicated Asia investment
specialist in the United States, through which Matthews International Capital
Management became our equity-method affiliate. Through this alliance, we aim
to expand our global asset management platform from the perspective of enhancement
of our ability to respond to customer needs.
In the alternative investment business, we provide our customers with the most
relevant products by collaborating with our group companies, including Mizuho
Alternative Investments, LLC in the United States, Mizuho Global Alternative
Investments, Ltd. in Tokyo, which selects and introduces hedge funds, etc.,
and Eurekahedge Pte, LTD. in Singapore, which is our subsidiary providing hedge
fund research and data services.
In addition, we develop global financial products by collaborating with BlackRock,
Inc. and arrange and offer products related to private equity and infrastructure
funds by collaborating with Partner Group AG.
The Asset Management Company aims to contribute to the revitalization of domestic
monetary assets through the foregoing approaches.
Global Products Unit
The Global Products Unit will cooperate with each of the in-house companies
to provide solutions, such as advice on business and financial strategies, financing
support, domestic and foreign exchange and settlement, to customers by making
full use of our expertise.
The Investment Banking Business provides sophisticated financial solutions mainly
in the business areas of mergers and acquisitions, real estate, asset finance,
project finance and corporate finance.
In the mergers and acquisitions business, with an aim to increase the corporate
value of our customers, we offer sophisticated mergers and acquisitions solutions
mainly in relation to support for mergers and acquisitions strategies, such
as cross-border mergers and acquisitions, business succession and going private
transactions.
In the real estate business, by taking full advantage of our knowledge and skills
of real estate-related projects developed through the various deals we have
arranged over the years, we offer solutions such as various financing methods
that utilize their real estate and real estate-related investment strategies.
In the asset finance business, by arranging customers’ asset securitization,
we satisfy their demands such as diversification of fund-raising sources and
improvement of financial indices through removing assets from their balance
sheet.
In the project finance business, we provide various financial products and services
such as project finance deals that enable the procurement of long-term capital
for natural resource development abroad, the building of electric power generation
projects and the construction of public infrastructure, renewable energy-related
funding and arrangement of PFI/PPP deals for financing transportation and other
types of public infrastructure.
In the corporate finance business, we proactively provide a wide variety of
fund-raising-related solutions in the syndicated loan market, debt capital markets
and equity capital markets.
The Transaction Business provides solutions related to domestic exchange settlement,
foreign exchange, cash management, trade finance, yen correspondence settlement
and yen securities custody, global custody, asset management and stock transfer
agent services.
Mainly for our corporate customers, we offer various financial services and
products such as internet banking, cash management solutions, Renminbi-denominated
services and trade finance on a global basis.
For financial institutions and institutional investors, we promote custody,
global custody and yen correspondence settlement, asset management and stock
transfer agent services.
In addition, we are further expanding our range of services through cooperation
with our group companies.
The Global Products Unit aims to support our goal of becoming a “financial
services consulting group” from the perspective of products through the
foregoing approaches.
Research & Consulting Unit
The Research and Consulting Unit was established by integrating our research
and consulting functions to support our aim of becoming a “financial services
consulting group.”
The Unit, called “One Think-tank,” is made up of Mizuho Bank’s
Industry Research Department, Mizuho Trust Bank’s Consulting Department,
Mizuho Securities’ Research and Consulting Unit, Mizuho Information &
Research Institute Inc., Mizuho Research Institute Ltd. and Mizuho-DL Financial
Technology Co., Ltd.
In addition to research and analysis on a wide range of topics ranging from
macroeconomics to industry trends, the research function offers policies based
on such research and analysis.
The consulting function covers a wide range of topics ranging from general to
specific, such as management strategy & business strategy, business management
& financial strategy, human resources, pensions & pension asset management,
initial public offerings & capital policy, business & asset succession,
information technology & systems, environment & energy, telecommunications
technology and financial engineering, etc. Using the strengths of the research
and consulting functions, the unit provides solutions to address customers’
various actual and potential challenges.