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Mizuho Financial GroupJapan

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Mizuho's head office in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Photo: Lombroso via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

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Last update: 2023-01-20 13:11:09
About
Website https://www.mizuho-fg.com/index.html
Headquarters
1–5–5, Otemachi, Chiyoda–ku 100–8176
Tokyo
Japan
CEO/chair Masahiro Kihara
President & Group CEO
Supervisor
Financial Service Agency (Japan)
Ownership
listed on NYSE, Osaka Securities Exchange & Tokyo Stock Exchange

Mizuho's shareholder structure can be accessed here.

Mizuho Financial Group is one of three Japanese megabanks, along with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. Mizuho offers a broad range of service including banking, trust banking and securities, and other business related to financial services. Under the umbrella of the holding company Mizuho Financial Group, their major group companies include Mizuho Bank, Mizuho Trust & Banking and Mizuho Securities. Muziho Bank became a signatory of the Equator Principles in October 2003, and was the chair bank of the Equator Principles Association from May 2014 until April 2015.

Sustainability
Commitments
Policies
Voluntary standards

Mizuho's most important sustainability commitments can be found at the website sections listed below.

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Sustainability

Environmental policies and targets

2022-12-29 00:00:00

Strengthening initiatives for achieving net zero by 2050

Bank policy
2022-12-29 00:00:00 | Mizuho Financial Group
2022-05-17 00:00:00

Strengthening of Sustainability Actions

Bank policy
2022-05-17 00:00:00 | Mizuho Financial Group
2022-05-17 00:00:00

Strengthening Sustainability Actions ENG

Bank policy
2022-05-17 00:00:00 | Mizuho Financial Group
2022-03-31 00:00:00

Sector policies: weapons, coal-fired power generation, thermal coal mining, oil & gas, hydropower, agriculture, palm oil, lumber & pulp

(Page 68 of Mizuho 2022 Annual report)
Bank policy
2022-03-31 00:00:00 | Mizuho Financial Group
2021-02-25 00:00:00

Biodiversity policy

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2021-02-25 00:00:00 | Mizuho Financial Group
2020-06-15 00:00:00

Environmental policy

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2020-06-15 00:00:00 | Mizuho Financial Group
2020-06-03 00:00:00

Environmental and social management policy for financing and investment activity

Bank policy
2020-06-03 00:00:00 | Mizuho Financial Group
2020-06-01 00:00:00

Updated policy - Responsible investment and financing

(document in Japanese)
Bank policy
2020-06-01 00:00:00 | Mizuho Financial Group
2020-03-30 00:00:00

Code of Conduct

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2020-03-30 00:00:00 | Mizuho Financial Group
2019-09-16 00:00:00

Modern Slavery Statement

Bank policy
2019-09-16 00:00:00 | Mizuho Financial Group
2019-05-22 00:00:00

Revisioned policy for coal-fired power generation

(in Japanese)
Bank policy
2019-05-22 00:00:00 | Mizuho Financial Group
2018-04-01 00:00:00

Human Rights Policy

Bank policy
2018-04-01 00:00:00 | Mizuho Financial Group
2017-08-29 00:00:00

Anti-Money Laundering Policy

Bank policy
2017-08-29 00:00:00 | Mizuho Financial Group
2016-02-15 00:00:00

Environmental Initiatives policy

Bank policy
2016-02-15 00:00:00 | Mizuho Financial Group
2013-08-05 00:00:00

Environmental and Social Checklist - Mining

Bank policy
2013-08-05 00:00:00 | Mizuho Bank
2013-08-05 00:00:00

Environmental and Social Checklist - Offshore Oil and Gas Development

Bank policy
2013-08-05 00:00:00 | Mizuho Bank
2013-07-31 00:00:00

Environmental and Social Checklist - Thermal Power

Bank policy
2013-07-31 00:00:00 | Mizuho Bank
Mizuho Financial Group has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Business for Social ResponsibilityTags: corporate social responsibility
Carbon Disclosure ProjectTags: carbon | climate change | greenhouse gas emissions
Declaration of biodiversity by KeidanrenTags: biodiversity | corporate social responsibility | Japan
Equator PrinciplesTags: Equator Principles | project finance | corporate social responsibility | sustainable development
Global Reporting InitiativeTags: sustainable development | human rights
Green Bond PrinciplesTags: bond issuance | investment | sustainable development
Montreal Carbon Pledge Tags: carbon | climate change
Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA)Tags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | energy | energy plants
Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF)Tags: carbon | corporate social responsibility
Principles for Financial Action towards a Sustainable SocietyTags: climate change | environment | Japan
Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB)Tags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | finance | sustainable development | United Nations | Voluntary Standards
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)Tags: corporate social responsibility | sustainable development | United Nations
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)Tags: corporate social responsibility | finance
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)Tags: corporate social responsibility | finance
UNEP Finance InitiativeTags: United Nations | sustainable development
United Nations Global CompactTags: United Nations | human rights
Dodgy Deals

Mizuho Financial Group is linked to a number of companies and projects that BankTrack considers controversial (so called Dodgy Deals), e.g. as a current or past financier or through an expression of interest. The profiles below provide more details on the nature of Mizuho Financial Group's link to these deals.