Mizuho

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Period: 13 Aug 2007 - 28 Nov 2023

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Mizuho backs Tokyo blockchain co-working space

Mizuho backs Tokyo blockchain co-working space

Mizuho Financial Group is looking to foster Japan's blockchain ecosystem by sponsoring a new dedicated co-working space in downtown Tokyo.

Japanese banks join quantum computing hub

Japanese banks join quantum computing hub

Japanese banks MUFG and Mizuho are to join a new IBM Q Hub at Keio University to experiment with future applications for quantum computing in the financial sector.

Mizuho and IBM build market forecasting tool that mimics brain's learning schemes

Mizuho and IBM build market forecasting tool that mimics brain's learning schemes

Mizuho Financial Group has teamed up with IBM to develop an AI-based financial market forecasting tool that mimics the human brain's learning scheme.

Wirecard gains Mizuho Bank as a new customer

Wirecard, the leading specialist in digital financial technology, has gained Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (“Mizuho Bank”), one of the worldwide largest financial institutions, as its new customer.

Mizuho Securities picks NRI AI tech to slash time spent on compliance

Mizuho Securities picks NRI AI tech to slash time spent on compliance

Mizuho Securities is using AI and voice recognition technology from Nomura Research Institute (NRI) to help monitor and analyse communications between its sales reps and investors.

Mizuho to cut 19,000 jobs, close 100 branches in long-term restructuring

Mizuho to cut 19,000 jobs, close 100 branches in long-term restructuring

Japanese financial service giant Mizuho has set out a ten-year blueprint to downsize its branch network and cut swathes of jobs as it prepares for a long-term battle to retain its dominant position in an age of new competition and low-cost technology.

Mizuho to test wallet app for smartphones

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (President & Group CEO: Yasuhiro Sato) and Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (President & CEO: Koji Fujiwara) have begun proof-of-concept testing of pring*, a wallet app for smartphones.

Japan's banks plan 33,000 job cuts in digital downsizing

Japan's banks plan 33,000 job cuts in digital downsizing

Japan's megabanks are planning to make huge, long-term cuts to their workforces as they increasingly turn to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation in a bid to streamline operations and cut costs.

Fujitsu and top Japanese banks to trial DLT-based P2P mobile money system

Fujitsu and top Japanese banks to trial DLT-based P2P mobile money system

Fujitsu is collaborating with Mizuho, Sumitomo Mitsui, and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial to conduct a joint field trial of a person-to-person money transfer service using blockchain technology.

Japanese banks plot national digital currency

Japanese banks plot national digital currency

Japanese banks are fighting back against the threat from China's Alibaba with plans to introduce their own digital currency in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Mizuho adopts MapR platform for asset liability management system

MapR Technologies, Inc. announced today that the MapR Converged Data Platform-which converges the essential data management, storage, and processing technologies on a single, horizontally scalable platform-has been selected for use in Mizuho Bank’s Asset Liability Management (ALM(*1)) system.

Mizuho Bank employs IBM Watson to fight financial crime

Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (President & CEO: Koji Fujiwara) and IBM Japan, Ltd. (General Manager: Elly Keinan) today announced that Mizuho Bank begun to verify operations towards more advanced and efficient risk management by employing cognitive technology *1 to take measures against financial crimes such as terrorism financing that governments across the world urge financial institutions to regulate more severely.

Mizuho and NRI use AI to eliminate tedious derivative contract procedures

Mizuho and NRI use AI to eliminate tedious derivative contract procedures

Japan's Mizuho Bank has been working with Nomura Research Institute (NRI) on the use of artificial intelligence to eliminate lengthy and complex derivative contract procedures.

Mizuho completes DLT-based trade finance transaction

Mizuho completes DLT-based trade finance transaction

Mizuho has completed a trade finance transaction between Australia and Japan, digitising all necessary documentation and sharing the data with multiple participants across a distributed ledger.

Mizuho prepares for API banking

Mizuho prepares for API banking

Japan's Mizuho is implementing API interfaces to third party personal financial management apps through a collaboration with IBM.

Japanese banks join with R3 to streamline derivative master agreements

Nomura Holdings, Inc., Daiwa Securities Group Inc., Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and R3 today announced the successful testing of a prototype developed using Corda, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform based on blockchain, to streamline ISDA Master Agreement negotiation.

Mizuho and World Innovation Lab to establish fintech joint venture

Mizuho and World Innovation Lab to establish fintech joint venture

Mizuho is joining forces with World Innovation Lab to create a joint venture company that will pair with startups from Japan and the US to create new business services utilising fintech innovations and the Internet of Things.

Mizuho to go live with DLT-based trade finance application

Mizuho to go live with DLT-based trade finance application

Mizuho Bank is preparing to conduct its first live trade financing transactions over a distributed ledger developed in association with IBM.

Mizuho enters digital wallet joint venture with Metaps

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (President & Group CEO: Yasuhiro Sato), Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (President & CEO: Koji Fujiwara), Metaps Inc. (CEO: Katsuaki Sato), and WiL LLC (CEO: Gen Isayama) signed an agreement for capital participation and business cooperation for the purpose of providing a new settlement service using FinTech.

Mizuho and Marubeni forge Asean fintech partnership

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (President & Group CEO: Yasuhiro Sato, “Mizuho FG”), Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (President & CEO: Nobuhide Hayashi, “Mizuho Bank”), and Marubeni Corporation (President & CEO: Fumiya Kokubo, “Marubeni”) have agreed to start exploring for opportunities to provide new financial services utilizing FinTech in the ASEAN region.

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