# Mizuho Financial Group

> Mizuho Financial Group is a Tokyo-based universal financial group that combines commercial banking, securities, trust banking, asset management, and research and consulting. Its advantage is not a single breakout product but an integrated balance sheet and advisory platform that can follow households, companies, investors, and public institutions from routine deposits to cross-border acquisitions and project finance.

- **Founded:** 2003
- **Headquarters:** Tokyo, Japan
- **Team size:** 52,427 consolidated employees as of March 31, 2026, excluding advisers and temporary employees.
- **Products:** Retail and business banking, Corporate and investment banking, Capital markets and securities, Trust and fiduciary services, Asset and wealth management
- **Notable:** Listed its American depositary shares on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006., Mizuho Americas was named 2024 Americas Loan House of the Year by IFR., Its Americas project-finance team reports a top-ten placement for 14 consecutive years and won multiple 2025 IJGlobal, PFI and LatinFinance honors.

## Products & services

- **Retail and business banking** — Deposits, lending, payments, wealth planning, succession support and digital banking for individuals and businesses in Japan.
- **Corporate and investment banking** — Corporate lending, syndicated loans, acquisition and leveraged finance, project and infrastructure finance, securitization, trade finance and M&A advice.
- **Capital markets and securities** — Debt and equity underwriting, sales and trading, derivatives, futures, foreign exchange, research and investor distribution.
- **Trust and fiduciary services** — Pensions, testamentary trusts, real estate, securities agency, securitization and global custody-related services.
- **Asset and wealth management** — Active and passive investment management, investment solutions and private wealth services through group businesses including Asset Management One.
- **Research and consulting** — Economic research, business and human-resources consulting, technology and transformation support.
- **Sustainable finance** — Green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds and loans, renewable project finance, ESG structuring and transition advice.

## Achievements

- Listed its American depositary shares on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006.
- Mizuho Americas was named 2024 Americas Loan House of the Year by IFR.
- Its Americas project-finance team reports a top-ten placement for 14 consecutive years and won multiple 2025 IJGlobal, PFI and LatinFinance honors.
- Greenhill's integration helped Mizuho enter the global investment-banking top ten, according to a 2025 IFR feature highlighted by Mizuho Americas.
- Mizuho received a Best IR Award in Japan's 2025 IR Awards.
- Mizuho Securities served as sole Japanese active bookrunner for PayPay's USD1.0 billion Nasdaq IPO in March 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Mizuho Americas published takeaways from its 2026 Technology Conference, focusing on the scaling AI investment cycle.
- **2026-07** — State Street completed the transfer of Mizuho Financial Group's global custody business.
- **2026-05** — Mizuho Bank and Rakuten Bank announced a stronger strategic capital and business alliance.
- **2026-04** — Mizuho Bank completed its merger with Mizuho Research & Technologies.
- **2026-03** — Mizuho, Asset Management One and SPARX Asset Management announced an asset-management collaboration.
- **2026-03** — Mizuho Securities was sole Japanese active bookrunner and POWL coordinator on PayPay's Nasdaq IPO.

## Links

- Website: https://www.mizuhogroup.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mizuho
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/mizuhoamericas
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MizuhoFGOfficial
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mizuhofg_official
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mizuhoamericas
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mizuhofg_official

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Last updated: 2026-08-13