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Mizuho Financial to buy Indian investment bank

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. President Masahiro Kihara (L) and Gaurav Deepak, CEO of Avendus Capital Private Ltd., shake hands at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2025. The major Japanese financial group said it will buy the major Indian investment bank to strengthen operations in the South Asian country with high growth potential.

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Mizuho FG Rakuten Group Joint Presentation

Joint presentation by Mizuho Financial Group and Rakuten Group. (Photo from left to right: Masahiro Kihara, President and Group CEO, Mizuho Financial Group, and Hiroshi Mikitani, Chairman and CEO, Rakuten Group, Inc.=November 14,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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Mizuho FG Rakuten Group joint presentation

Joint presentation by Mizuho Financial Group and Rakuten Group. Pictured from right to left are Masahiro Kihara, President and Group CEO, Mizuho Financial Group, and Hiroshi Mikitani, Chairman and CEO, Rakuten Group.=November 14,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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Mizuho FG Rakuten Group Joint Presentation

Joint presentation by Mizuho Financial Group and Rakuten Group. Pictured from right to left are Masahiro Kihara, President and Group CEO, Mizuho Financial Group, and Hiroshi Mikitani, Chairman and CEO, Rakuten Group, Inc.=November 14,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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Mizuho FG Rakuten Group Joint Presentation

Joint presentation by Mizuho Financial Group and Rakuten Group. Pictured from right to left are Masahiro Kihara, President and Group CEO, Mizuho Financial Group, and Hiroshi Mikitani, Chairman and CEO, Rakuten Group, Inc.=November 14,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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US: Strong Winter Storm Brings Blizzard Conditions To Sierra Nevada 3

A strong winter storm hit the Sierra Nevada on Friday, March 1, bringing heavy snow and high winds. Blizzard Warnings were issued for the area, including Lake Tahoe and eastern Nevada. The Sierra Avalanche Center warned that the danger of avalanches was high. Yosemite National Park and many ski resorts in the region announced they were closing at least for the day.

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Signs and logos of three Mizuho Financial Group companies

Signs and logos of three Mizuho Financial Group companies=Date:June 20, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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Signs and logos of three Mizuho Financial Group companies

Signs and logos of three Mizuho Financial Group companies=Date:June 20, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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U.S. envoy remembers Japanese 9/11 victims at Mizuho Financial

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer (C) offers flowers to the 9/11 monument at the head office of Mizuho Financial Group Inc. in memory of the bank group's 23 employees and local staff killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack on the World Trade Center in New York.

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Mizuho FG chief vows to prevent recurrence after loan scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Sato, President of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., pledges at its shareholders' meeting in Tokyo on June 24, 2014, to improve corporate governance to prevent recurrence of a scandal involving loans to members of organized crime groups. "We will try to regain the public's trust through renewed efforts to sever ties with antisocial groups," he said.

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Mizuho Bank's new president

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuhide Hayashi (front), deputy president of Mizuho Bank, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2014, after being named its next president. Hayashi will assume the presidency of the core banking unit of Mizuho Financial Group Inc. on April 1, succeeding Yasuhiro Sato (back), following the megabank's involvement in loans to gangsters.

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Mizuho Financial Group chief

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Sato, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2014. Sato said Mizuho Financial Group will set up independent committees to oversee its management in an effort to enhance corporate governance following its core banking unit's involvement in loans to gangsters.

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Mizuho releases earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Sato, president of Mizuho Bank, announces Mizuho Financial Group Inc.'s earnings for the April to September period of 2013 in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2013.

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Aso on Mizuho's false report

NARITA, Japan - Financial services minister Taro Aso speaks with reporters at Narita airport near Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2013, before leaving for Washington to attend a meeting of Group of 20 finance chiefs. Aso said that it is "extremely regrettable" that Mizuho Bank submitted to his agency a false report on its lending to crime groups.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe (C), a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., and other executives of the financial group bow after a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime groups

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe (C), a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe, a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe, a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe, a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe, a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., bows in a gesture of apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe, a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., is pictured during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho deputy president knew of loans to crime group

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsugu Okabe, a deputy president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., bows in a gesture of apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2013. Okabe acknowledged that a deputy president of Mizuho Bank learned of its lending to organized crime groups in December 2010 but failed to take necessary corrective steps for more than two years.

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Mizuho Financial announces earnings

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Sato, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., announces the group's earnings for financial 2012 at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on May 15, 2013.

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New Mizuho Bank head

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Mizuho Financial Group Inc. President Yasuhiro Sato. Sato will concurrently serve as head of the new Mizuho Bank to be created through the merger in July 2013 of its core group banks, sources familiar with the matter said on Jan. 21, 2013.

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Mizuho Securities merges with Mizuho Investors Securities

TOKYO, Japan - A ceremony is held in Tokyo's Otemachi area on Jan. 4, 2013, to mark the merger of two brokerage houses under Mizuho Financial Group Inc. to start anew as Mizuho Securities Co. The pre-merger Mizuho Securities handled corporate transactions while Mizuho Investors Securities Co. served individual customers.

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Mizuho Bank replaces president

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Tsukamoto (front), president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., bows during a press conference in Tokyo on May 23, 2011. He said the company will replace Mizuho Bank President Satoru Nishibori to take responsibility for a massive computer system glitch in March.

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Mizuho group to merge retail, corporate banking units

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 18, 2011, shows the headquarters of Mizuho Bank in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Mizuho Financial Group Inc. plans to merge its two core banking units, Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Corporate Bank, following massive computer system trouble in March, sources close to the matter said the same day.

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Mizuho group to merge retail, corporate banking units

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 18, 2011, shows the headquarters of Mizuho Corporate Bank in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Mizuho Financial Group Inc. plans to merge its two core banking units, Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Corporate Bank, following massive computer system trouble in March, sources close to the matter said the same day.

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SMFG lists on New York Stock Exchange

NEW YORK, United States - Teisuke Kitayama (C in front), president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 1, 2010. SMFG listed its American Depository Receipts on the NYSE on the same day, becoming the last of Japan's three biggest banking groups to trade on the NYSE, following Mizuho Financial Group Inc. and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.

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3 Mizuho banking group leaders to retire

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show (from L to R) Mizuho Financial Group Inc. Chairman Terunobu Maeda, Mizuho Corporate Bank Chairman Hiroshi Saito and Mizuho Bank Chairman Seiji Sugiyama. Industry sources said May 11, 2010, the three executives are planning to retire after leading the group since its inauguration through a merger of three major banks in 2002.

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5 major banks report group net profits for April-Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Tsukamoto, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., briefs reporters on the company's midterm earnings report for fiscal 2009 at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2009.

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Mizuho sees 1st red ink in 6 years

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Financial Group Inc. President Takashi Tsukamoto speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 15. He said the company incurred a group net loss of 588.81 billion yen in fiscal 2008, falling into the red for the first time in six years, as bad-loan disposal costs and losses from equity investments surged amid the global financial crisis.

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Shinko, Mizuho Securities merge, becoming 4th-largest brokerage house

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Takashi Tsukamoto, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., Takashi Kusama, chairman of Mizuho Securities Co., Keisuke Yokoo, president of Mizuho Securities, and Yasuhiro Sato, president of Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd., join hands during a ceremony to mark the merger of Shinko Securities Co. and Mizuho Securities Co. in Tokyo on May 7. The newly created brokerage house succeeded to the name of Mizuho Securities.

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Mizuho to reshuffle top managers at holding firm, group banks

TOKYO, Japan - (From left) Terunobu Maeda, current president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., Takashi Tsukamoto, next president of the holding company, Satoru Nishibori, next president of Mizuho Bank, and Yasuhiro Sato, next president of Mizuho Corporate Bank, give a press conference at the Bank of Japan headquarters Jan. 16. Mizuho Financial Group said it will reshuffle top managers at the holding company and the two key group banks in April as the Japanese megabank combats a sharp economic downturn sparked by the global financial turmoil.

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Mizuho eyes raising 300 bil. yen in capital

TOKYO, Japan - Terunobu Maeda, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., answers questions from reporters at the Bank of Japan on Nov. 13, where Mizuho released an earnings report for the first half of fiscal 2008.

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Mizuho incurs further subprime loss in FY 2007

TOKYO, Japan - Terunobu Maeda (L), president and chief executive officer of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., briefs reporters on the group's earnings report for fiscal 2007 in Tokyo on May 15. Mizuho group's net profit fell 49.8 percent in fiscal 2007 from a year earlier to 311.22 billion yen.

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Mizuho Financial's 1st-half net profit falls 16.6%

TOKYO, Japan - Terunobu Maeda, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 14 as the banking group said its consolidated net profit for the first half of fiscal 2007 dropped 16.6 percent from a year before to 327.06 billion yen.

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Mizuho Securities, Shinko Securities to merge Jan. 1, 2008

TOKYO, Japan - The top executives of Mizuho Securities Co. and Shinko Securities Co., both affiliates of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., meet the press in Tokyo on Jan. 10 after the two companies announced they have reached a basic agreement to merge Jan. 1, 2008, to form Japan's third-largest brokerage house in terms of operating revenue. From L to R: Shinko Securities President Takashi Kusama, Mizuho Securities President Makoto Fukuda, and Mizuho Securities Vice President Keisuke Yokoo. Yokoo will be president of the new company, Kusama chairman, and Fukuda vice chairman.

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Mizuho, Shinko to merge, become No. 3 Japanese brokerage

TOKYO, Japan - Keisuke Yokoo, vice president of Mizuho Securities Co., (file photo) will become president of a new securities firm to be formed Jan. 1, 2008 through the merger of Mizuho Securities and Shinko Securities Co., both affiliate of Mizuho Financial Group Inc

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Mizuho Financial's 1st-half net profit rises 15.9%

TOKYO, Japan - Terunobu Maeda, president of Mizuho Financial Group Inc., briefs reporters about the group's earnings report for the first half of fiscal 2006 at a news conference at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on Nov. 20.

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Mizuho debuts on NYSE, 2nd Japan bank listed there

NEW YORK, United States - Terunobu Maeda, president of Mizuho Financial Group, speaks during a news conference in New York on Nov. 8 after Japan's No. 2 banking group debuted on the New York Stock Exchange to become the second Japanese bank listed there.

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Nishimura, architect of Mizuho group, dies at 73

TOKYO, Japan - Former Industrial Bank of Japan President Masao Nishimura (file photo), one of the architects of the mega banking group Mizuho, died on Aug. 1 at a Tokyo hospital of heart failure. He was 73. As then president of the IBJ, Nishimura led the three-way merger in 2000 of his bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank and Fuji Bank. Mizuho Financial Group Inc. was established in 2003 as the group holding company.

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MUFG's net profit tops 1 tril. yen, Mizuho logs record profit

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi (3rd from right) speaks at a press conference on May 22 on the group's business results for fiscal 2005. The world's largest banking group reported more than 1 trillion yen ($8.87 billion) in consolidated net profit for the year to March 31, 2006.

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MUFG's net profit tops 1 tril. yen, Mizuho logs record profit

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi speaks at a press conference on May 22 on the group's business results for fiscal 2005. The world's largest banking group reported more than 1 trillion yen ($8.87 billion) in consolidated net profit for the year, which saw Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. merged with UFJ Holdings Inc.

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MUFG's net profit tops 1 tril. yen, Mizuho logs record profit

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Financial Group Inc. President Terunobu Maeda announces his group's business results for fiscal 2005 at a press conference in Tokyo on May 22. Japan's second largest financial group booked a record-high net profit for the year to March 31, 2006.

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Mizuho to exploit merger experience for advice to regional banks

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Financial Group Inc. President Terunobu Maeda speaks in an interview in Tokyo on May 6. He said that the group will exploit its merger experience for a planned new advisory service for regional banks planning mergers.

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Mizuho to repay public funds in FY 2006, allies with 3 U.S. banks

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Financial Group Inc. President Terunobu Maeda announces at a press conference on April 26 that the group will repay all public funds to the government in fiscal 2006 and that it has formed alliances with three U.S. banks to prop up its profitability.

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Mizuho Financial Group's Maeda becomes bankers' association chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Financial Group Inc. President Terunobu Maeda speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on April 19 on assuming the post of chairman of the Japanese Bankers Association, succeeding Yoshifumi Nishikawa, president of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. Maeda said, ''My two major goals are to activate financial markets and to raise confidence in financial institutions.''

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Credit Saison, Mizuho to tie up credit card operations

TOKYO, Japan - Credit Saison Co. President Hiroshi Hayashino (L), Mizuho Bank President Seiji Sugiyma (C) and UC Card Co. President Sumio Uesugi (R) shake hands after announcing their business tie-up at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. The partnership between Credit Saison and Mizuho Financial Group's UC Card Co. would create Japan's second largest card business operator.

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(2)Mitsubishi Tokyo, UFJ announce merger accord

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Mitsubishi Tokyo Bank Chairman Shigemitsu Miki, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. President Nobuo Kuroyanagi, UFJ Holdings Inc. President Ryosuke Tamakoshi and UFJ Bank President Takamune Okihara give a joint press conference in Tokyo after signing a memorandum of understanding to launch negotiations with the aim of integrating their operations during the first half of fiscal 2005. The deal will create the world's biggest banking group with total assets of 190 trillion yen, topping the 135 trillion yen of Mizuho Financial Group Inc.