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Gov't to name bond analyst Mizuno as new BOJ board member

TOKYO, Japan - The government plans to appoint Atsushi Mizuno (file photo), chief strategist at Credit Suisse First Boston Securities (Japan) Ltd., as a new member of the Bank of Japan's Policy Board, government sources said Nov. 5. Mizuno will succeed Teizo Taya, a former managing director of the Daiwa Institute of Research, whose five-year term on the central bank board expires Dec. 2.

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Resona, Saitama Resona banks begin operations

OSAKA, Japan - Ikuo Yanase (R), vice president of Resona Holdings Inc., Yasuhisa Katsuta (C), president of Resona Bank, and Tetsuo Morishige, vice president of Resona Bank, cut a tape to mark the start of the bank's business at its head office in Osaka on March 3. Resona Bank and Saitama Resona Bank were created by the integration of Daiwa Bank and Asahi Bank on March 1.

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Resona foresees group net loss of 185 bil. yen for FY 2002

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhisa Katsuta, president of Resona Holdings Inc., the holding company for Daiwa Bank and Asahi Bank, speaks at a press conference at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on Feb. 12 about a forecast for its earnings for fiscal 2002.

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Daiwa Bank Holdings president to become head of Resona Bank

OSAKA, Japan - Daiwa Bank Holdings Inc. President Yasuhisa Katsuta (R) speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Aug. 28, flanked by Asahi Bank President and Daiwa Bank Holdings Vice President Yukio Yanase (L). Katsuta is to become the head of Resona Bank, which will be created in March 2003 through the merger of Daiwa Bank and Asahi Bank. Yanase will replace Katsuta after the holding company is renamed Resona Holdings Inc. in October 2002.

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Daiwa Bank Holdings to book 955 bil. yen loan-loss charge

OSAKA, Japan - Daiwa Bank Holdings Inc. President Yasuhisa Katsuta speaks at a news conference April 12 at the Osaka branch of the Bank of Japan in Osaka's Kita Ward. He talked about the holding company's group earnings estimate for fiscal 2001.

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Asahi joins Daiwa Bank Holdings

OSAKA, Japan - Yasuhisa Katsuta (standing), president of Daiwa Bank Holdings Inc., speaks March 1 at a ceremony in Osaka to mark Asahi Bank's entry into the Daiwa group to form Japan's fifth-largest banking group. At left is Asahi Bank President Yukio Yanase, who was appointed vice president of Daiwa Bank Holdings.

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Daiwa, 2 regional banks launch holding company

OSAKA, Japan - Masao Nomura (L), former president of Nara Bank, Yasuhisa Katsuta (C), former president of Daiwa Bank, and Yasuhiro Takatani, former president of Kinki Osaka Bank, join hands at a ceremony at Daiwa Bank's head office in Osaka on Dec. 12 to mark the launch of Daiwa Bank Holdings, which has integrated the three banks' management. Katsuta has become president of the largest financial group in the western Japanese region of Kansai. Nomura and Takatani have become board members.

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Ex-Daiwa Bank execs agree to pay 250 mil. yen in settlement

OSAKA, Japan - Ichiro Nishimura, a plaintiff representing shareholders in a lawsuit involving Daiwa Bank, speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Dec. 11. Forty-nine former executives of Daiwa Bank have agreed to pay the bank 250 million yen to settle the suit out of court. An earlier court ruling ordered 11 of them to pay the bank $775 million in compensation for losses related to unauthorized bond deals at its New York branch.

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Daiwa, Asahi banks agree to integrate management

OSAKA, Japan - Nara Bank President Masao Nomura (L), Asahi Bank President Tatsuro Ito (2nd from L), Daiwa Bank President Yasuhisa Katsuta (2nd from R) and Kinki Osaka Bank President Yasuhiro Takatani join hands at a press conference at Daiwa Bank's head office in Osaka on Sept. 21. They announced the formation of Japan's fifth-largest banking group with 50.4 trillion yen in combined assets.

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Daiwa, 2 regional banks to set up holding firm

OSAKA, Japan - (From L to R) Nara Bank President Masao Nomura, Daiwa Bank President Yasuhisa Katsuta and Kinki Osaka Bank Presidennt Yasuhiro Takatani give a joint news conference in Osaka on August 1. The three banks announced an agreement to establish a holding company by the end of March to integrate their management.

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Daiwa Bank execs ordered to redress losses at N.Y. branch

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the head office of Daiwa Bank in Osaka on Sept. 20. The Osaka District Court the same day ordered Daiwa Bank's executives to pay the bank $775 million in compensation for losses incurred by the bank from unauthorized bond deals at its New York branch. Plaintiffs accused the bank's management of failing to take appropriate actions to prevent former New York branch trader Toshihide Iguchi from engaging in unauthorized U.S. Treasury bond trading over 11 years from 1984. Iguchi was convicted in the United States in 1996 and jailed.

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Daiwa Bank group to buy Namihaya Bank

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Kaiho (C), president of Daiwa Bank, speaks at a news conference in Osaka on May 31 following a final decision by the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC) to sell the collapsed Namihaya Bank to a consortium led by Daiwa Bank.

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Sumitomo Trust, Daiwa Bank to set up new bank

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Takahashi (L), president of Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., and Takashi Kaiho, president of Daiwa Bank, shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 9 after announcing the two banks will jointly establish around next October a new trust bank that will provide back-office services for trust assets from institutional investors.

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Daiwa Bank to sell head office building

A file photo shows the head office building of Daiwa Bank in Osaka which the bank has decided to sell to accelerate the write-off of bad loans.

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Daiwa, 2 regional banks launch holding company

OSAKA, Japan - Masao Nomura (L), former president of Nara Bank, Yasuhisa Katsuta (C), former president of Daiwa Bank, and Yasuhiro Takatani, former president of Kinki Osaka Bank, join hands at a ceremony at Daiwa Bank's head office in Osaka on Dec. 12 to mark the launch of Daiwa Bank Holdings, which has integrated the three banks' management. Katsuta has become president of the largest financial group in the western Japanese region of Kansai. Nomura and Takatani have become board members.

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Gov't to name bond analyst Mizuno as new BOJ board member

TOKYO, Japan - The government plans to appoint Atsushi Mizuno (file photo), chief strategist at Credit Suisse First Boston Securities (Japan) Ltd., as a new member of the Bank of Japan's Policy Board, government sources said Nov. 5. Mizuno will succeed Teizo Taya, a former managing director of the Daiwa Institute of Research, whose five-year term on the central bank board expires Dec. 2. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Daiwa Bank execs agree to pay 250 mil. yen in settlement

OSAKA, Japan - Ichiro Nishimura, a plaintiff representing shareholders in a lawsuit involving Daiwa Bank, speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Dec. 11. Forty-nine former executives of Daiwa Bank have agreed to pay the bank 250 million yen to settle the suit out of court. An earlier court ruling ordered 11 of them to pay the bank $775 million in compensation for losses related to unauthorized bond deals at its New York branch.

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Daiwa Bank Holdings to book 955 bil. yen loan-loss charge

OSAKA, Japan - Daiwa Bank Holdings Inc. President Yasuhisa Katsuta speaks at a news conference April 12 at the Osaka branch of the Bank of Japan in Osaka's Kita Ward. He talked about the holding company's group earnings estimate for fiscal 2001.

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Resona foresees group net loss of 185 bil. yen for FY 2002

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhisa Katsuta, president of Resona Holdings Inc., the holding company for Daiwa Bank and Asahi Bank, speaks at a press conference at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on Feb. 12 about a forecast for its earnings for fiscal 2002. (Kyodo)

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Asahi joins Daiwa Bank Holdings

OSAKA, Japan - Yasuhisa Katsuta (standing), president of Daiwa Bank Holdings Inc., speaks March 1 at a ceremony in Osaka to mark Asahi Bank's entry into the Daiwa group to form Japan's fifth-largest banking group. At left is Asahi Bank President Yukio Yanase, who was appointed vice president of Daiwa Bank Holdings.

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Ex-BOJ deputy governor Nakaso

Photo shows Daiwa Institute of Research Chairman Horoshi Nakaso, a former Bank of Japan deputy governor, during an interview on Nov. 21, 2018, in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Resona, Saitama Resona banks begin operations

OSAKA, Japan - Ikuo Yanase (R), vice president of Resona Holdings Inc., Yasuhisa Katsuta (C), president of Resona Bank, and Tetsuo Morishige, vice president of Resona Bank, cut a tape to mark the start of the bank's business at its head office in Osaka on March 3. Resona Bank and Saitama Resona Bank were created by the integration of Daiwa Bank and Asahi Bank on March 1. (Kyodo)

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Daiwa Bank Holdings president to become head of Resona Bank

OSAKA, Japan - Daiwa Bank Holdings Inc. President Yasuhisa Katsuta (R) speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Aug. 28, flanked by Asahi Bank President and Daiwa Bank Holdings Vice President Yukio Yanase (L). Katsuta is to become the head of Resona Bank, which will be created in March 2003 through the merger of Daiwa Bank and Asahi Bank. Yanase will replace Katsuta after the holding company is renamed Resona Holdings Inc. in October 2002. (Kyodo)

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Daiwa, Asahi banks agree to integrate management

OSAKA, Japan - Nara Bank President Masao Nomura (L), Asahi Bank President Tatsuro Ito (2nd from L), Daiwa Bank President Yasuhisa Katsuta (2nd from R) and Kinki Osaka Bank President Yasuhiro Takatani join hands at a press conference at Daiwa Bank's head office in Osaka on Sept. 21. They announced the formation of Japan's fifth-largest banking group with 50.4 trillion yen in combined assets.

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Daiwa Bank execs ordered to redress losses at N.Y. branch

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the head office of Daiwa Bank in Osaka on Sept. 20. The Osaka District Court the same day ordered Daiwa Bank's executives to pay the bank $775 million in compensation for losses incurred by the bank from unauthorized bond deals at its New York branch. Plaintiffs accused the bank's management of failing to take appropriate actions to prevent former New York branch trader Toshihide Iguchi from engaging in unauthorized U.S. Treasury bond trading over 11 years from 1984. Iguchi was convicted in the United States in 1996 and jailed.

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Daiwa Bank group to buy Namihaya Bank

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Kaiho (C), president of Daiwa Bank, speaks at a news conference in Osaka on May 31 following a final decision by the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC) to sell the collapsed Namihaya Bank to a consortium led by Daiwa Bank.

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Sumitomo Trust, Daiwa Bank to set up new bank

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Takahashi (L), president of Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., and Takashi Kaiho, president of Daiwa Bank, shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 9 after announcing the two banks will jointly establish around next October a new trust bank that will provide back-office services for trust assets from institutional investors.

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Daiwa Bank to sell head office building

A file photo shows the head office building of Daiwa Bank in Osaka which the bank has decided to sell to accelerate the write-off of bad loans.

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Daiwa, Sumitomo to launch 3 join

Daiwa Securities President Yoshinari Hara (L) and Sumitomo Bank President Yoshifumi Nishikawa (R) shake hands at a Tokyo hotel July 28 after announcing a basic agreement to integrate a broad range of securities services for corporate clients under three new jointly owned companies. Daiwa and Sumitomo plan to start the new ventures, including what will be the largest wholesale securities house in Japan in capitalization terms, on April 1, 1999, pending government authorization.