Japan

The JV will allow Oceanpayment to be JCB’s acquiring partner for cross-border payments.

This is part of its move to enhance market liquidity for the instrument.

It maintained its short-term interest rate at -0.1% and the 10-year government yields at 0%.

Rei Motoyama will replace Peter Massion effective 1 January.

They might introduce new business models and solve overcapacity, says a former central bank deputy governor.

This is expanding into leveraged loans and collateralised loan obligations (CLOs).

Any gains overseas will not be able to equal the size of domestic assets.

This will provide a buffer to declining asset quality of banks in the region.

It plans to create a joint outlet that will offer mutual funds, insurance products, and loans.

Total card payments value will hit over $750b by 2022, according to analysts.

It is renamed Digital Wallet Philippines.

The banks' capital and liquidity positions will be evaluated.

A crisis or similar shock would lead to downturns more impactful than the GFC.

Majority of the loans are financing coal projects in India, Indonesia and Vietnam.

The Emerging Mobile Investment Service Launched in Japan LINE Corporation launches the LINE Securities, a mobile investment service, August 20, 2019. Based on the joint venture agreement to form a business partnership to pursue financial businesses focused on the securities business, LINE Financial Corporation ("LINE Financial") and Nomura Holdings Inc. ("Nomura") established LINE Securities Preparatory Corporation on June 1, 2018.

Total headcount fell to 223,778 by end-March.