Ripplewood-led group picked as possible LTCB buyer

TOKYO, Japan - The Financial Reconstruction Commission, in a meeting in Tokyo on Sept. 28, decides to open priority negotiations with an investor group led by U.S. investment house Ripplewood Holdings LLC on sale of the nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB). Second from L is commission chairman Hakuo Yanagisawa.

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