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UK: Two Major Banks In Leeds Sprayed With Red Paint By Palestine Action Group

Two banks in Leeds city center were found in red paint by pro-Palestine activists on Thursday morning, June 27. The Palestine Action group claimed responsibility. The campaigners targeted the Barclays branch and the Pinnacle building, which is the base of JP Morgan’s offices, on Albion Street. Seven people were arrested, according to reports.

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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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Tokyo Tomin, Yachiyo banks

TOKYO, Japan - Akihiro Kakizaki (L), president of Tokyo Tomin Bank, shakes hands with Isao Sakai, president of Yachiyo Bank, in Tokyo on May 2, 2014. The two banks, which plan to merge, said the same day that Kakizaki has been appointed president and Sakai chairman of their new holding company, Tokyo TY Financial Group Inc., which will be established Oct. 1.

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Sumitomo Trust-Chuo Mitsui merger good chance to show presence

TOKYO, Japan - Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Tanabe speaks during a recent interview with Kyodo News on the merger of his bank and Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. A giant trust banking group is to be created through the management integration of the two trust banks in April 2011.

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Sumitomo Trust-Chuo Mitsui merger to reinforce Asian operations

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Trust President Hitoshi Tsunekage speaks during a recent interview with Kyodo News on the merger of his bank and Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. A giant trust banking group is to be created through the management integration of the two trust banks in April 2011.

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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 to create new holding firm

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Terunobu Maeda speaks at a news conference Dec. 4. He said the company will transform itself into a more narrowly defined bank holding firm and come under a new comprehensive holding company to be created in March 2003 to bolster the group's overall financial business. The new holding firm, Mizuho Financial Group, will oversee the group's whole business activities, while the existing holding company will more directly control the group's two core banks -- Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Corporate Bank -- to have them work more closely together.

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Mizuho chief admits prior computer tests insufficient

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Holdings Inc. President Terunobu Maeda tells the House of Representatives Financial Affairs Committee on April 24 that computer tests prior to the April 1 launch of the two Mizuho group banks were insufficient and that this was a factor behind the problems plaguing their computer systems.

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Gov't to start special probe of Mizuho fiasco

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa says April 19 that the Financial Services Agency will launch a special inspection of the Mizuho financial group to look into the massive computer problem that disrupted the operations of the group's two banks.

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Okuda urges Mizuho execs to take blame for computer fiasco

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations (Nikkeiren), speaks to reporters April 18 in Tokyo. He said the management of the Mizuho Financial Group should take responsibility for the computer fiasco afflicting two group banks.

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Ex-Mizuho chief acknowledges blame for computer fiasco

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Holdings Inc.'s former president, Yoshiro Yamamoto, testifies the House of Councillors Financial Affairs Committee on April 16. Yamamoto said he is aware of his responsibility for the computer problems afflicting two Mizuho group banks.

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Mizuho makes fresh start with merger of 3 core banks

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Holdings Inc., the world's largest banking group with assets of 160 trillion yen, made a fresh start April 1 as its three core banks merged into two -- Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Corporate Bank. Mizuho Holdings President Terunobu Maeda (R) and Mizuho Bank President Tadashi Kudo (L) cut the tape in a ceremony to inaugurate Mizuho Bank.

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Mitsubishi group banks name head of holding firm

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show (from L to R) Shigemitsu Miki, president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, and Akio Utsumi, president of Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corp. The two banks and Nippon Trust Bank are due to integrate their operations next April by inaugurating a holding company, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. Miki has been tentatively named president and Utsumi chairman of the holding company.

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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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People Enjoy the Mild Weather - Paris

Parisians enjoy the mild weather on the banks of the river Seine on March 28, 2021 in Paris, France. Dozens of doctors from the Paris public hospital group (AP-HP) warned on Sunday they were preparing to have to triage patients in the next two weeks, amid fears of surging Covid-19 cases in the French capital. Despite a vaccination campaign focused on the oldest and most vulnerable people, those in intensive care with COVID-19 has risen steadily from less than 3,000 people at the end of January to nearly 4,000 on Tuesday. Photo by Karim Ait Adjedjou/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Ait Adjedjou Karim/Avenir Pictures/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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People Enjoy the Mild Weather - Paris

Parisians enjoy the mild weather on the banks of the river Seine on March 28, 2021 in Paris, France. Dozens of doctors from the Paris public hospital group (AP-HP) warned on Sunday they were preparing to have to triage patients in the next two weeks, amid fears of surging Covid-19 cases in the French capital. Despite a vaccination campaign focused on the oldest and most vulnerable people, those in intensive care with COVID-19 has risen steadily from less than 3,000 people at the end of January to nearly 4,000 on Tuesday. Photo by Karim Ait Adjedjou/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Ait Adjedjou Karim/Avenir Pictures/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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People Enjoy the Mild Weather - Paris

Parisians enjoy the mild weather on the banks of the river Seine on March 28, 2021 in Paris, France. Dozens of doctors from the Paris public hospital group (AP-HP) warned on Sunday they were preparing to have to triage patients in the next two weeks, amid fears of surging Covid-19 cases in the French capital. Despite a vaccination campaign focused on the oldest and most vulnerable people, those in intensive care with COVID-19 has risen steadily from less than 3,000 people at the end of January to nearly 4,000 on Tuesday. Photo by Karim Ait Adjedjou/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Ait Adjedjou Karim/Avenir Pictures/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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People Enjoy the Mild Weather - Paris

Parisians enjoy the mild weather on the banks of the river Seine on March 28, 2021 in Paris, France. Dozens of doctors from the Paris public hospital group (AP-HP) warned on Sunday they were preparing to have to triage patients in the next two weeks, amid fears of surging Covid-19 cases in the French capital. Despite a vaccination campaign focused on the oldest and most vulnerable people, those in intensive care with COVID-19 has risen steadily from less than 3,000 people at the end of January to nearly 4,000 on Tuesday. Photo by Karim Ait Adjedjou/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Ait Adjedjou Karim/Avenir Pictures/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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People Enjoy the Mild Weather - Paris

Parisians enjoy the mild weather on the banks of the river Seine on March 28, 2021 in Paris, France. Dozens of doctors from the Paris public hospital group (AP-HP) warned on Sunday they were preparing to have to triage patients in the next two weeks, amid fears of surging Covid-19 cases in the French capital. Despite a vaccination campaign focused on the oldest and most vulnerable people, those in intensive care with COVID-19 has risen steadily from less than 3,000 people at the end of January to nearly 4,000 on Tuesday. Photo by Karim Ait Adjedjou/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Ait Adjedjou Karim/Avenir Pictures/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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People Enjoy the Mild Weather - Paris

Parisians enjoy the mild weather on the banks of the river Seine on March 28, 2021 in Paris, France. Dozens of doctors from the Paris public hospital group (AP-HP) warned on Sunday they were preparing to have to triage patients in the next two weeks, amid fears of surging Covid-19 cases in the French capital. Despite a vaccination campaign focused on the oldest and most vulnerable people, those in intensive care with COVID-19 has risen steadily from less than 3,000 people at the end of January to nearly 4,000 on Tuesday. Photo by Karim Ait Adjedjou/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Ait Adjedjou Karim/Avenir Pictures/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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People Enjoy the Mild Weather - Paris

Parisians enjoy the mild weather on the banks of the river Seine on March 28, 2021 in Paris, France. Dozens of doctors from the Paris public hospital group (AP-HP) warned on Sunday they were preparing to have to triage patients in the next two weeks, amid fears of surging Covid-19 cases in the French capital. Despite a vaccination campaign focused on the oldest and most vulnerable people, those in intensive care with COVID-19 has risen steadily from less than 3,000 people at the end of January to nearly 4,000 on Tuesday. Photo by Karim Ait Adjedjou/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Ait Adjedjou Karim/Avenir Pictures/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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People Enjoy the Mild Weather - Paris

Parisians enjoy the mild weather on the banks of the river Seine on March 28, 2021 in Paris, France. Dozens of doctors from the Paris public hospital group (AP-HP) warned on Sunday they were preparing to have to triage patients in the next two weeks, amid fears of surging Covid-19 cases in the French capital. Despite a vaccination campaign focused on the oldest and most vulnerable people, those in intensive care with COVID-19 has risen steadily from less than 3,000 people at the end of January to nearly 4,000 on Tuesday. Photo by Karim Ait Adjedjou/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Ait Adjedjou Karim/Avenir Pictures/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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People Enjoy the Mild Weather - Paris

Parisians enjoy the mild weather on the banks of the river Seine on March 28, 2021 in Paris, France. Dozens of doctors from the Paris public hospital group (AP-HP) warned on Sunday they were preparing to have to triage patients in the next two weeks, amid fears of surging Covid-19 cases in the French capital. Despite a vaccination campaign focused on the oldest and most vulnerable people, those in intensive care with COVID-19 has risen steadily from less than 3,000 people at the end of January to nearly 4,000 on Tuesday. Photo by Karim Ait Adjedjou/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Ait Adjedjou Karim/Avenir Pictures/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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People Enjoy the Mild Weather - Paris

Parisians enjoy the mild weather on the banks of the river Seine on March 28, 2021 in Paris, France. Dozens of doctors from the Paris public hospital group (AP-HP) warned on Sunday they were preparing to have to triage patients in the next two weeks, amid fears of surging Covid-19 cases in the French capital. Despite a vaccination campaign focused on the oldest and most vulnerable people, those in intensive care with COVID-19 has risen steadily from less than 3,000 people at the end of January to nearly 4,000 on Tuesday. Photo by Karim Ait Adjedjou/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Ait Adjedjou Karim/Avenir Pictures/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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People Enjoy the Mild Weather - Paris

Parisians enjoy the mild weather on the banks of the river Seine on March 28, 2021 in Paris, France. Dozens of doctors from the Paris public hospital group (AP-HP) warned on Sunday they were preparing to have to triage patients in the next two weeks, amid fears of surging Covid-19 cases in the French capital. Despite a vaccination campaign focused on the oldest and most vulnerable people, those in intensive care with COVID-19 has risen steadily from less than 3,000 people at the end of January to nearly 4,000 on Tuesday. Photo by Karim Ait Adjedjou/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Ait Adjedjou Karim/Avenir Pictures/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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People Enjoy the Mild Weather - Paris

Parisians enjoy the mild weather on the banks of the river Seine on March 28, 2021 in Paris, France. Dozens of doctors from the Paris public hospital group (AP-HP) warned on Sunday they were preparing to have to triage patients in the next two weeks, amid fears of surging Covid-19 cases in the French capital. Despite a vaccination campaign focused on the oldest and most vulnerable people, those in intensive care with COVID-19 has risen steadily from less than 3,000 people at the end of January to nearly 4,000 on Tuesday. Photo by Karim Ait Adjedjou/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Ait Adjedjou Karim/Avenir Pictures/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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Ex-Mizuho chief acknowledges blame for computer fiasco

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Holdings Inc.'s former president, Yoshiro Yamamoto, testifies the House of Councillors Financial Affairs Committee on April 16. Yamamoto said he is aware of his responsibility for the computer problems afflicting two Mizuho group banks.

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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. (Kyodo)

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Mizuho chief admits prior computer tests insufficient

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Holdings Inc. President Terunobu Maeda tells the House of Representatives Financial Affairs Committee on April 24 that computer tests prior to the April 1 launch of the two Mizuho group banks were insufficient and that this was a factor behind the problems plaguing their computer systems.

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Gov't to start special probe of Mizuho fiasco

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa says April 19 that the Financial Services Agency will launch a special inspection of the Mizuho financial group to look into the massive computer problem that disrupted the operations of the group's two banks.

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Mizuho makes fresh start with merger of 3 core banks

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Holdings Inc., the world's largest banking group with assets of 160 trillion yen, made a fresh start April 1 as its three core banks merged into two -- Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Corporate Bank. Mizuho Holdings President Terunobu Maeda (R) and Mizuho Bank President Tadashi Kudo (L) cut the tape in a ceremony to inaugurate Mizuho Bank.

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2 Japanese regional banks form Kyushu Financial Group

A poster announcing the launch of Kyushu Financial Group on Oct. 1, 2015, is displayed at Higo Bank's central branch in Kumamoto the same day. The management integration of Higo Bank and Kagoshima Bank, two regional banks based in southwestern Japan's Kyushu region, makes the newly established financial group the second largest lender in Kyushu in terms of assets. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lake Chuzenji

A view of the Chuguji of the Futarasan Shrine in the north bank of Lake Chuzenji. Many huts of ascetic persons stand by the lake banks. Two huts to the left of the torii and the Kannondo were destroyed in the avalanche of earth and rocks of 1902. A pier is seen in the left corner and a group of hotels.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number40‐11‐0]

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Sumitomo Trust-Chuo Mitsui merger good chance to show presence

TOKYO, Japan - Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Tanabe speaks during a recent interview with Kyodo News on the merger of his bank and Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. A giant trust banking group is to be created through the management integration of the two trust banks in April 2011. (Kyodo)

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Sumitomo Trust-Chuo Mitsui merger to reinforce Asian operations

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Trust President Hitoshi Tsunekage speaks during a recent interview with Kyodo News on the merger of his bank and Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. A giant trust banking group is to be created through the management integration of the two trust banks in April 2011. (Kyodo)

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Mizuho to create new holding firm

TOKYO, Japan - Mizuho Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Terunobu Maeda speaks at a news conference Dec. 4. He said the company will transform itself into a more narrowly defined bank holding firm and come under a new comprehensive holding company to be created in March 2003 to bolster the group's overall financial business. The new holding firm, Mizuho Financial Group, will oversee the group's whole business activities, while the existing holding company will more directly control the group's two core banks -- Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Corporate Bank -- to have them work more closely together. (Kyodo)

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Okuda urges Mizuho execs to take blame for computer fiasco

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations (Nikkeiren), speaks to reporters April 18 in Tokyo. He said the management of the Mizuho Financial Group should take responsibility for the computer fiasco afflicting two group banks.

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Mitsubishi group banks name head of holding firm

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show (from L to R) Shigemitsu Miki, president of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, and Akio Utsumi, president of Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corp. The two banks and Nippon Trust Bank are due to integrate their operations next April by inaugurating a holding company, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. Miki has been tentatively named president and Utsumi chairman of the holding company.

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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.