Japan's banks finally over the worst of the bad loan crisis
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Two of Japan's big four banks said they had got over the worst of the bad loan problems overhanging their business and the economy but they also posted lower first-half earnings as loan demand remained soft.
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Many members of the Bank of Japan policy board agreed in early July that there was uncertainty in the outlook for adjustments in the American housing markets because of subprime mortgage problems, minutes of the central bankâs meeting of July 11-12 showed. Some members said it was not highly likely that the subprime loan problems would severely affect credit markets, the minutes showed, but if that were to happen, there was a âpossibility that global financial and economic conditions could be badly affected.â The nine-member board agreed by an 8-1 vote to keep the overnight call rate target at 0.50 percent. The policy makers maintained the view that the United States economy would probably achieve a soft landing toward the end of the year.
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Confidence at Japanese companies fell to its lowest level in more than two years, a closely-watched Bank of Japan survey showed Friday, amid rising anxiety about a possible slowdown in the U.S. economy and recent market turmoil.
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Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui, two of Japan&#39;s four biggest banking groups, reported Monday that their group net profits for the first fiscal half fell from the previous year, despite some progress in getting rid of bad debts.
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TOKYO/NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 17: Japan on Friday ordered Citigroup Inc. to close its Japanese private banking offices after uncovering a series of problems, including failing to prevent suspected money laundering.
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Japan&#39;s central bank downgraded its assessment of the economy for the first time in more than a year Friday, citing weakening industrial production and slowing export growth.
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TOKYO/NEW YORK  - Japan on Friday ordered  Citigroup Inc. C.N to close its Japanese private banking  offices after uncovering a series of problems, including a  failure to prevent suspected money laundering.
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Softbank, the Japanese telecommunications conglomerate, on Thursday closed one of the world's biggest whole-business securitisations on record, a Y1,442bn ($12.4bn) refinancing of the purchase of Vodafone Japan's mobile business.
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Confidence in business conditions at major Japanese companies fell from three months ago dampening expectations of an interest rate increase and clouding the outlook for the worldâs No. 2 economy.
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TOKYO Daiei, Japan&#39;s third-largest retailer, will receive bank waivers, share write-downs and funds from sponsor companies worth Â¥707 billion to restore its finances, Japan&#39;s bailout agency said Tuesday.
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The Bank of Japan&#39;s quarterly survey of business confidence confirmed that the world&#39;s second-largest economy is recovering at a steady pace, Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Heizo Takenaka said.
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&quot;Revival starts with a cleanup,&quot; said post-World War II finance minister Juichi Tsushima on August 17, 1945. And a convoluted cleanup in Japan&#39;s banking business is what is under way today.
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Japan's regulators have announced the country's biggest financial market reforms in a decade amid hot competition in Asia to be the region's financial hub.
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On Thursday 13th September, after the market had closed, the Bank of England announced to have provided emergency cash to Northern Rock, the fifth largest mortgage lender in the country. The Bank of England played down the intervention, saying that it is not a "bail-out" but rather a loan meant to ease the bank's difficulties in financing its short-term operations in the face of the recent market turmoil. The bank's assets are reportedly solid and there is no risk for shareholders.  In spite of this reassurance, the stock price of this former market darling tumbled 30% on Friday. People were seen queing outside branches while the website went down as the bank clients rushed to withdraw their money using the online banking facility.  It's the first time in my life I've seen that Great Depression staple, the bank run.
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TOKYO/NEW YORK  - Japan on Friday ordered  Citigroup Inc. C.N to close its Japanese private banking  offices after uncovering a series of problems, including  failing to prevent suspected money laundering.
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Japanâs central bank, the Bank of Japan, left its interest rates unchanged because of worries about the fallout from the credit squeeze in the United States. Before the subprime mortgage crisis emerged in the United States, the markets had expected the Bank of Japan to raise the pivotal overnight call rate, now at 0.50 percent.
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Japan's Nikkei rose 0.54 percent on  Tuesday to post its highest close in five months after economic  data supported the view that Japan's economic slowdown is  temporary, giving a boost to banks such as Mizuho Financial  Group