Earnings, deals and disclosures from Japan's listed financials companies, in English.
Mitsubishi UFJ's June-quarter net profit rose 48% to ¥809.4bn on stronger trading income and equity gains, yet the bank kept its ¥2.7tn full-year profit target and ¥96 dividend forecast unchanged.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's net profit rose 48% to ¥809.4bn in the June quarter on trading and equity gains, yet the group left its ¥2.7tn annual profit target and dividend forecast exactly where they stood before the results landed.
A Bank of Japan rate rise to 1.00% landed in June, six months ahead of Daishi Hokuetsu Financial Group's original December assumption, and the bank now expects a bigger profit and a bigger dividend for the year.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank is cutting its stake in a ¥1.64tn leasing subsidiary from 84.9% to 45%, Panasonic is exiting entirely, and Fuyo General Lease (40%) and Yokohama Financial Group (15%) are buying in; parent Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group expects a ¥14.0bn transfer loss when the deal closes on October 1.
Chugin Financial Group's first-quarter net profit rose 40.3% to ¥13.9bn as higher domestic rates lifted lending income, even as the bank booked ¥19.9bn in losses selling off low-yield bonds, a cost partly offset by ¥18.3bn in stock-sale gains.
Senshu Ikeda Holdings disclosed ¥18.18bn of unrealized losses on held-to-maturity bonds at end-June, a figure bigger than the ¥17.3bn net profit it reported for the year to March 2026 and worth 72.0% of its ordinary profit for that year.
A trading boom that more than doubled Tokyo's daily equity turnover pushed Japan Exchange Group to raise its profit outlook for the year to March 2027 by more than a quarter and lift its dividend forecast to ¥77 a share from ¥61.
Japan's online broker posted a 95% jump in quarterly net income to ¥5.61bn as individual investors doubled their trading during the market's climb to a record ¥72,000 on the Nikkei, yet it still won't forecast full-year profit or a dividend because brokerage results swing heavily with market conditions.
GMO Financial Holdings booked record first-half revenue and profit as strong CFD trading and higher deposit-linked interest income offset a slump in over-the-counter FX and crypto revenue, letting the company lift its full-year dividend forecast to ¥57.04 per share from ¥54.76 ahead of formal results due August 5.
Aomori Michinoku Bank's held-to-maturity bonds carried a ¥12.07bn unrealized loss at the end of June, more than three times last year's net profit for parent Procrea Holdings, which says its full-year earnings and dividend forecasts still stand.
Japan Post Bank's domestically listed held-to-maturity bonds showed a ¥4.94tn unrealized loss at the end of June, worth 940% of last year's net profit, though the bank says its earnings and dividend forecasts for the year to March 2027 stand unchanged.
Domestic held-to-maturity and policy-matching bonds at Japan Post Insurance carry an unrealized loss worth more than 26 times last year's net profit, yet the insurer says its earnings and dividend guidance for the year to March 2027 is unchanged.
Tohoku Bank's held-to-maturity bonds carry a ¥2.14bn unrealized loss, worth more than the ¥1.69bn net profit it booked for the year to March 2026, even as it holds its current-year earnings forecast steady.
Okinawa Financial Group's banking subsidiary disclosed a ¥10.4bn unrealized loss on held-to-maturity bonds as of June 30, 2026, a sum equal to 92% of the group's profit for the year ended March 2026, and kept its full-year earnings and dividend forecasts unchanged.
Higher-than-expected interest income at Juroku Bank pushed its parent, Juroku Financial Group, to raise near-term dividend guidance and lift its five-year return-on-equity target from 6% to 7% or more, a small but concrete sign of Japan's rate shift reaching a regional lender's bottom line.
Mito Securities says preliminary operating profit for the April-June quarter rose 730% to ¥1.98bn, with investment-trust and fund-wrap fee income cited as the main driver ahead of the official July 30 results.
Tokyo-listed fintech unbanked dismissed president Hu Yan on July 17 over claims he ordered the company's auditor out of a board meeting, disclosed that some of its own directors doubt the vote's legality, and now faces a shareholder request to dismiss the entire board, including his successor, Yasuto Hirai.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group registered ¥257bn of new 10-year subordinated bonds in two same-day filings, yet ¥227bn of that debt is left out of its own shelf-usage tally until the notes settle on July 31.
Marusan Securities says preliminary quarterly operating profit rose to ¥1.75bn from ¥395mn a year earlier, crediting higher stock brokerage commissions and investment trust sales fees, with audited figures due July 30.
Mizuho Financial Group is selling ¥209bn and ¥81bn tranches of unsecured perpetual bonds carrying debt-exemption and subordination clauses, the latest draw on a ¥3tn shelf registration filed with Japan's Kanto Local Finance Bureau.
unbanked's board ordered an independent probe after allegations that an outside figure known only as 'Mr. A' shaped management, funding and legal decisions. Directors accused of ties to him refused to answer the company's own email inquiry.
SBI Holdings filed for a ¥170bn unsecured note and a separate ¥50bn dual-tranche bond on the same day, both charged against one ¥800bn shelf registration that still shows ¥610bn unclaimed while both payments await settlement.
Towa Bank plans to sell about ¥11.3bn of securities for a ¥5.5bn gain, using it to absorb most of a ¥5.8bn uncollateralized loss from a single borrower, Zentoshin, and says its profit forecast for the year to March 2027 holds for now, subject to review at its August 4 earnings release.
Japan Post Insurance wants to hand decades-old, pre-privatization underwriting risk to a reinsurance vehicle SCOR would build and run, taking a stake capped below half the voting rights, but the companies have signed only a memorandum, not a final deal.