MIZUHO FINANCIAL GROUP INC

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is a financial services company providing banking, trust banking, and securities services in Japan, the Americas, Europe, Asia/Oceania, and internationally. The company operates through six segments: Retail & Business Banking Company, Corporate & Investment Banking Company, Global Corporate & Investment Banking Company, Global Markets Company, Asset Management Company, and Others. Mizuho offers deposit products, syndicated loans, housing loans, and card loans. It provides business matching services, retirement payment management, and advisory services for overseas expansions and mergers and acquisitions. The company also offers asset management and asset succession consulting, payroll services, and sells lottery tickets. Its services include fund management, underwriting of equity and bonds, risk hedging products, and solutions for capital management and business/financial strategy. Mizuho provides real estate services, advisory services to financial institutions on financial strategy and investment products, funding support, and public bonds underwriting. Corporate finance, transaction banking, sales and trading, investment products, and pension funds are also offered. The company provides ALM and investment services, including stable capital raising and balance sheet management, and manages fixed income, equity, and other securities portfolios. Additional services include online banking, cash management solutions, currency transactions, trade finance, custody, yen correspondence settlement, research, consulting, trust, securitization and structured finance, stock transfer agency, private banking, and information technology-related services. Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.