Tagged: mizuho financial group

June 20, 2023 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fujitsu and Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. launched joint verification trials using Fujitsu’s generative AI technology to streamline development and maintenance operations of Mizuho’s system. The trials will “take place between June 19, 2023 and March 31, 2024.” Generative AI technologies “offer enormous potential to transform the… Read More

February 3, 2023 @ 12:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mizuho Bank, Ltd., the integrated retail and corporate banking unit of Mizuho Financial Group and one of Japan’s largest financial services institutions, is “modernizing its legacy banking system for international operations with Oracle.” Over the coming years, Mizuho will “implement Oracle’s banking solutions to support… Read More

November 15, 2022 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) and Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., one of Japan’s leading global financial institutions, announced an agreement “to collaborate in providing sustainability solutions to the bank’s corporate clients.” The agreement will enable Mizuho “to strengthen its offering to customers by combining LSEG’s… Read More

February 22, 2019 @ 11:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mizuho Bank, Ltd., a core subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., announced earlier this week it is set to launch a new bank digital currency platform, J-Coin Pay, in cooperation with approximately 60 other financial institutions. According to Mizuho Bank, J-Coin Pay employs QR codes1… Read More

February 6, 2019 @ 2:21 am By Cali Haan  |  

Three large banks in Japan, players in the country’s “crowded” payments market, have decided to abandon a cooperative pilot undertaken in 2017 to create a peer-to-peer remittance network, Nikkei Asian Review (NAR) reports. The three banks- Mizuho Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group– will… Read More

December 26, 2018 @ 4:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Japan’s Mizuho Financial Group is reportedly planning to introduce its very own digital currency, which will be used for shopping and remitted at no cost, sometime in 2019. According to Asian media website, Nikkei, Mizuho will reportedly allow retail shops using the currency to change… Read More

May 25, 2018 @ 9:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. announced last week it has agreed to sponsor Neutrino, Japan’s first blockchain1 coworking space. According to the firm, Neutrino, which located in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward, was established by Omise Japan (CEO: Jun Hasegawa). It was reported: “One of the key features… Read More