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Mizuho head office in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Photo: Lombroso via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Mizuho Financial Group is one of three Japanese megabanks, along with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. The name Mizuho is an archaic Japanese term meaning "golden ears of rice". The Mizuho Financial Group offers a broad range of service including banking, trust banking and securities, and other business related to financial services through its group companies. Under the umbrella of the holding company Mizuho Financial Group, their major group companies include Mizuho Bank (MHBK), Mizuho Trust & Banking (MHTB) and Mizuho Securities (MHSC). 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.
[this profile covers the holding company Mizuho Financial Group, unless indicated otherwise]
| Website | https://www.mizuho-fg.com/index.html |
| Headquarters |
1–5–5, Otemachi, Chiyoda–ku
100–8176 Tokyo
Japan
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| CEO/chair |
Tatsufumi Sakai President & Group CEO |
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| Annual report | Integrated report 2017 |
| Ownership |
listed on NYSE Euronext, Osaka Securities Exchange & Tokyo Stock Exchange
Mizuho's share holder structure can be accessed here. |
There is an overview of the CSR management that the bank has in place, on its website. Mizuho Group has also signed the Declaration on Biodiversity by Nippon Keidanren.
The Equator Principles are a voluntary commitment of banks to try to avoid or minimise the social, environmental and human rights impact of projects they finance. For more information on the Equator Principles see their website here and the campaign page of BankTrack here.
The Equator Principles exist already since 2003. Mizuho Financial Group adopted the Equator Principles in 2003.
Mizuho Financial Group must report annually on its implementation of the Equator Principles. All information is supposed to be found here.
Mizuho Financial Group's subsidiary Mizuho Bank adopted the Equator Principles in 2003.
Mizuho Financial Group is involved in financing the following Equator Principles projects that BankTrack considers controversial.
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BankTrack has assessed Mizuho Financial Group on its implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in June 2016. Mizuho Financial Group is assessed as a Laggard, with a total score of 3/12.
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Mizuho Financial Group is reporting on the implementation here.
