BTM, Mitsubishi Trust announce alliance plan

BTM, Mitsubishi Trust announce alliance plan

TOKYO, Japan - Satoru Kishi (2nd from L), president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (BTM), and Akio Utsumi (3rd from L), president of Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corp., along with Tomoaki Hirano (L), president of Nippon Trust Bank, and Hiroshi Hayashi, president of Tokyo Trust Bank, shake hands in Tokyo on April 19 after announcing an agreement to integrate their management under a joint holding company in April 2001. The two banks will create the world's fifth largest and Japan's fourth biggest banking group by assets. Mitsubishi Trust will also absorb two BTM trust subsidiaries, Nippon Trust Bank and Tokyo Trust Bank, in October 2001.

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